Minuscule 652


Minuscule 652, ε 1095, is a Greek minuscule manuscript of the New Testament, on parchment. Palaeographically it has been assigned to the 10th century. The manuscript has complex contents. Scrivener labelled it by 875.

Description

The codex contains the text of the four Gospels, on 305 parchment leaves. It is written in one column per page, 20 lines per page.
It contains Epistula ad Carpianum, the Eusebian tables, the tables of the κεφαλαια, numerals of the κεφαλαια at the margin, the τιτλοι, Ammonian Sections, the Eusebian Canons,, Synaxarion, Menologion, subscriptions, and pictures.

Text

The Greek text of the codex is a representative of the Byzantine text-type. Hermann von Soden classified it as Kappa text. It was not confirmed by Kurt Aland, who did not place it in any Category. According to the Claremont Profile Method it represents textual family Πa in Luke 1, and Kx in Luke 10 and Luke 20.
Silva Lake discovered that in Mark 4:20-6:24 it represents text of the Family 1.
The later hand added in John 8:8 on the margin ενος εκαστου αυτων τας αμαρτιας. This textual variant have Codex Nanianus, Minuscule 73, 95, 331, 364, 700, 782, 1592 and some Armenian manuscripts. Minuscule 264 has this textual variant in John 8:6.

History

Gregory dated the manuscript to the 10th or 11th century. Currently the manuscript is dated by the INTF to the 10th century. The manuscript belonged to Otto of Greece and was brought to Germany in 1879. Gregory saw the manuscript in 1887. The manuscript currently is housed at the Bavarian State Library, at Munich.