The Codex Zittaviensis (No. 664 in the Gregory-Aland numbering), δ 502 ( von Soden), dedicated as Rahlfs 44, is a Greek

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manuscript of the

Old Testament The Old Testament (often abbreviated OT) is the first division of the Christian biblical canon, which is based primarily upon the 24 books of the Hebrew Bible or Tanakh, a collection of ancient religious Hebrew writings by the Israelites. The ...

and New Testament, on paper. Palaeographically it has been assigned to the 15th century. The manuscript has complex contents.Handschriftenliste
at the Münster Institute Gregory labelled it by 664^e, 253^a, 303^p, and 106^r. Scrivener labelled it by 605^e, 233^a, 243^p, and 106^r.

Description

The codex contains the entire of the New Testament, on 233 paper leaves (size ). The text is written in one column per page, 30 lines per page. It contains Prolegomena, lists of the are placed before every book, the text is divided according to the , with , subscriptions at the end of books, and stichoi. It contains also the text of the

(the whole codex has 775 leaves) with the books of 1 Esdras, 4 Maccabees, Judith, Tobit. The order of books: Old Testament (Genesis–Esther), Gospels,

Book of Acts The Acts of the Apostles ( grc-koi, Πράξεις Ἀποστόλων, ''Práxeis Apostólōn''; la, Actūs Apostolōrum) is the fifth book of the New Testament; it tells of the founding of the Christian Church and the spread of its message ...

Catholic epistles The catholic epistles (also called the general epistlesEncarta-encyclopedie Winkler Prins (1993–2002) s.v. "katholieke brieven". Microsoft Corporation/Het Spectrum.) are seven epistles of the New Testament. Listed in order of their appearance in ...

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 ...

, and Apocalypse.

Text

The Greek text of the codex is a representative of the Byzantine text-type.

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 ...

lists it to the textual family K^r.

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 ...

placed it in Category V. According to the Claremont Profile Method it belongs to the textual family K^r in Luke 1; 10; 20.

History

Scrivener dated the manuscript to the 14th century, Gregory dated it to the 15th 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 15th century. The manuscript once belonged to David Fleischmann († 1606), then to John Fleischmann, who in 1620 presented the manuscript to the Stadtbiliothek in Zittau. It was examined and collated by

Christian Frederick Matthaei Christian Frederick Matthaei (4 March 1744, in Mücheln – 26 September 1811), a Thuringian, palaeographer, classical philologist Classics or classical studies is the study of classical antiquity. In the Western world, classics traditionally r ...

in 1801-1802, but this collation had lost. Ernst von Dobschütz examined the manuscript. Gregory saw the manuscript in 1889. The text of the Apocalypse was collated by Herman C. Hoskier.Herman C. Hoskier, ''Concerning the Text of the Apocalypse: Collation of All Existing Available Greek Documents with the Standard Text of Stephen’s Third Edition Together with the Testimony of Versions, Commentaries and Fathers''. vol. 1 (London: Bernard Quaritch, Ltd., 1929), pp. 330-337 Currently the manuscript is housed at the Stadtbibliothek (A 1), in Zittau.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Minuscule 0664 Greek New Testament minuscules Septuagint manuscripts 15th-century biblical manuscripts

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