Minuscule 658 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), ε 1215 ( von Soden), is a

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of the

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, on parchment. Palaeographically it has been assigned to the 12th or 13th century. The manuscript has complex contents.K. Aland, M. Welte, B. Köster, K. Junack, "Kurzgefasste Liste der griechischen Handschriften des Neues Testaments", ''

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'', Berlin, New York 1994, p. 86.Handschriftenliste
at the Münster Institute

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labelled it by 636^e.

Description

The codex contains the complete text of the four

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s, on 220 parchment leaves (size ). The text is written in one column per page, 29 lines per page. The text is divided according to the (''chapters''), at the margin, with (''titles'') at the top. There is also another division according to the smaller Ammonian Sections (in Mark 241 sections, the last section of Mark is ended in 16:20), with references to the

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. References to the Eusebian Canons are written in the same line with the Ammonian Sections (unusual). It contains

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, the Eusebian tables (before four Gospels), the lists of the (before every Gospel), lectionary markings,

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, and

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. It contains also 8 lessons from various texts of the

Pauline epistles The Pauline epistles, also known as Epistles of Paul or Letters of Paul, are the thirteen books of the New Testament attributed to Paul the Apostle, although the authorship of some is in dispute. Among these epistles are some of the earliest extan ...

Hermann von Soden Baron Hermann von Soden (16 August 1852 – 15 January 1914) was a German Biblical scholar, minister, professor of divinity, and textual theorist. Life Born in Cincinnati, Ohio, on August 16, 1852, Soden was educated at the University of Tübinge ...

, ''Die Schriften des neuen Testaments, in ihrer ältesten erreichbaren Textgestalt / hergestellt auf Grund ihrer Textgeschichte'' (Berlin 1902), vol. 1, p. 162

Text

Kurt Aland Kurt Aland (28 March 1915 – 13 April 1994) was a German theologian and biblical scholar who specialized in New Testament textual criticism. He founded the '' Institut für neutestamentliche Textforschung'' (Institute for New Testament Textua ...

did not place the Greek text of the codex in any formal

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. The text of the manuscript was not examined by using the

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. In result its textual character is still unknown. This codex' version of

John John is a common English name and surname: * John (given name) * John (surname) John may also refer to: New Testament Works * Gospel of John, a title often shortened to John * First Epistle of John, often shortened to 1 John * Secon ...

8:8 contains a textual variant: (''the sins of every one of them''); the same textual variant is found in certain other manuscripts:

Codex Nanianus Uncial 030, designated by siglum U or 030 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), ε 90 ( von Soden), is a Greek uncial manuscript of the New Testament on parchment, dated palaeographically to the 9th century. The manuscript has complex contents, wit ...

Minuscule 73 Minuscule 73 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), ε 260 ( von Soden), is a Greek minuscule manuscript of the New Testament, on parchment leaves. Palaeographically it has been assigned to the 12th century.K. Aland, M. Welte, B. Köster, K. Junack, ...

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, 364,

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, 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 The Institute for New Testament Textual Research (german: Institut für neutestamentliche Textforschung — INTF) at the University of Münster, Westphalia, Germany, is to research the textual history of the New Testament and to reconstruct its G ...

to the 12th or 13th century. The manuscript was presented by Presbyter Nicephorus in 1291 to the

Saint Catherine's Monastery Saint Catherine's Monastery ( ar, دير القدّيسة كاترين; grc-gre, Μονὴ τῆς Ἁγίας Αἰκατερίνης), officially the Sacred Autonomous Royal Monastery of Saint Katherine of the Holy and God-Trodden Mount Sinai, ...

in the

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. It was brought from Sinai to Berlin by

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(along with the codex

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and Minuscule 654).

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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 (then Prussian State Library, then Berlin State Library) 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

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for safekeeping. As the result of postwar border changes some of these collections were found in Poland (among them minuscule 658). They were moved to the Jagiellonian University Library.Sroka Marek, ''The Music Collection of the Former Prussian State Library at the Jagiellonian Library in Kraków, Poland: Past, Present, and Future Developments'', Library Trends - Volume 55, Number 3, Winter 2007, pp. 651-664 Currently the manuscript is housed at the

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(Fonds der Berliner Handschriften, Graec. quarto 47), in

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Minuscule 0658 Greek New Testament minuscules 12th-century biblical manuscripts

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