Minuscule 622


Minuscule 622, O π23, is a Greek diglot minuscule manuscript of the New Testament, on parchment. Palaeographically it has been assigned to the 12th century. The manuscript is lacunose. Tischendorf labeled it by 155a and 188p.

Description

The codex contains the text of the Catholic epistles, and Pauline epistles on 270 parchment leaves with some lacunae. It is written in one column per page, 20 lines per page.
It contains Prolegomena and a commentary to the Catholic epistles written by another hand.
The leaves 1 and 213 were supplied by a later hand.
The order of books: Pauline epistles, and Catholic epistles. Hebrews is placed after Epistle to Philemon. It does not contain the Book of Acts.

Text

The Greek text of the codex is a representative of the Byzantine text-type. Aland placed it in Category V.

History

The manuscript was added to the list of New Testament manuscripts by Johann Martin Augustin Scholz. Gregory saw the manuscript in 1886.
Formerly it was labeled by 155a and 188p. In 1908 Gregory gave the number 622 to it.
The manuscript currently is housed at the Vatican Library, at Rome.