Minuscule 658


Minuscule 658, ε 1215, is a Greek minuscule manuscript of the New Testament, on parchment. Palaeographically it has been assigned to the 12th or 13th century. The manuscript has complex contents. Scrivener labelled it by 636e.

Description

The codex contains the complete text of the four Gospels, on 220 parchment leaves. The text is written in one column per page, 29 lines per page.
The text is divided according to the κεφαλαια, at the margin, with τιτλοι at the top. There is also another division according to the smaller Ammonian Sections, with references to the Eusebian Canons. References to the Eusebian Canons are written in the same line with the Ammonian Sections.
It contains Epistula ad Carpianum, the Eusebian tables, the lists of the κεφαλαια, lectionary markings, Synaxarion, and Menologion.
It contains also 8 lessons from various texts of the Pauline epistles.

Text

did not place the Greek text of the codex in any formal Category. The text of the manuscript was not examined by using the Claremont Profile Method. In result its textual character is still unknown.
This codex' version of John 8:8 contains a textual variant: ἕνος ἑκάστου αὐτῶν τὰς ἁμαρτίας ; the same textual variant is found in certain other manuscripts: Codex Nanianus, Minuscule 73, 331, 364, 700, 782, 1592, Old Latin manuscripts, and Armenian manuscripts.

History

Scrivener dated the manuscript to the 12th or 13th century, Gregory dated it to the 12th century. Currently the manuscript is dated by the INTF to the 12th or 13th century.
The manuscript was presented by Presbyter Nicephorus in 1291 to the Saint Catherine's Monastery in the Sinai Peninsula. It was brought from Sinai to Berlin by Heinrich Brugsch. Wilhelm Wattenbach published a facsimile of one pager of the codex in 1876. Gregory saw the manuscript in 1887. It was housed in Berlin in the Preußische Königliche Bibliothek with the shelf-number Gr. quarto 47.
At the end of 1943, the frequency of the bombing of Berlin increased. The Prussian State Library sent many collections out of Berlin to be sheltered in Silesia for safekeeping. As the result of postwar border changes some of these collections were found in Poland. They were moved to the Jagiellonian University Library.
Currently the manuscript is housed at the Biblioteka Jagiellońska, in Kraków.