Minuscule 645


Minuscule 645, ε 434, is a Greek minuscule manuscript of the New Testament, on parchment. It is dated by a colophon to the year 1304. The manuscript has complex contents. Scrivener labelled it by 591e.

Description

The codex contains the text of the four Gospels, on 279 parchment leaves. It is written in one column per page, 22 lines per page.
It contains tables of the κεφαλαια, numbers of the κεφαλαια at the margin, the τιτλοι at the top, lectionary markings, incipits, αναγνωσεις, subscriptions at the end of each of the Gospels, numbers of στιχοι, and pictures.
The Ammonian Sections were added by a later hand.
The Pericope Adulterae is marked with an obelus.

Text

The Greek text of the codex is a representative of the Byzantine text-type. Hermann von Soden classified it to the textual family Kr. Kurt Aland placed it in Category V.
According to the Claremont Profile Method it represents Kr in Luke 1 and Luke 20. In Luke 10 no profile was made.

History

The manuscript was written by Neophytus a monk of Cyprus in 1304/1305. It was held in the monastery in Creta. In 1849 it belonged to Micheal Sarmalenios in Milos. It was bought at Milos by H. O. Coxe in 1857 from a Greek who had it from a relative who had been "hegoumenos" of a Canadian monastery.
A facsimile was given in Catalogue of British Museum.
The manuscript currently is housed at the British Library in London.