Minuscule 661


Minuscule 661, ε 179, is a Greek language minuscule manuscript of the New Testament, on parchment. Palaeographically it has been assigned to the 11th century. The manuscript has complex contents. Scrivener labelled it by 639e.

Description

The codex contains a complete text of the four Gospels, on 234 parchment leaves. The text is written in one column per page, 23 lines per page. It contains the tables of the κεφαλαια before every Gospel, and the portrait of the Evangelist is placed only before Gospel of John. There are no Eusebian tables before the Gospels.
The text is divided according to the κεφαλαια, and according to the Ammonian Sections. The numerals of the κεφαλαια are given at the left margin, and their τιτλοι at the top of the pages. The Ammonian Sections are given with a references to the Eusebian Canons.
The manuscript contains additional material at the end, "East Canon" for the years 1034-1037.

Text

The Greek text of the codex is representative of the Byzantine text-type. Hermann von Soden lists it to the textual family K1, which is according to him the oldest family of the Byzantine text-type. Kurt Aland did not examine the Greek text of the codex by his method of thousand readings, and therefore he did not place it in any Category. The text of the manuscript was not examined by using the Claremont Profile Method.
The texts of , Christ's agony at Gethsemane, John 5:3-4, and the Pericope Adulterae are marked with an asterisk as doubtful. The text of Mark 16:9-20 has no numbered κεφαλαια at the margin, their τιτλοι at the top,nor Ammonian Sections and references to the Eusebian Canons.
Matthew 1:11

History

Scrivener and C. R. Gregory dated the manuscript to the 11th century. Currently the manuscript is dated by the INTF to the 11th century.
The manuscript was brought from the East to Berlin. It was added to the list of New Testament manuscripts by Scrivener and Gregory. Gregory saw the manuscript in 1887. It was housed in Berlin in the Preußische Königliche Bibliothek with the shelf-number Gr. quarto 67.
The Prussian State Library sent many collections out of Berlin to be sheltered in Silesia for safekeeping during World War II. 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.