Minuscule 737 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), Θ^ε306 ( von Soden),

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. 264. is a Greek

minuscule Letter case is the distinction between the letters that are in larger uppercase or capitals (or more formally ''majuscule'') and smaller lowercase (or more formally ''minuscule'') in the written representation of certain languages. The writing ...

manuscript of the New Testament written on parchment. Palaeographically it has been assigned to the 13th century. The manuscript has no complex contents.Handschriftenliste
at the Münster Institute Scrivener labelled it as 755^e.

Description

The

codex The codex (plural codices ) was the historical ancestor of the modern book. Instead of being composed of sheets of paper, it used sheets of vellum, papyrus, or other materials. The term ''codex'' is often used for ancient manuscript books, with ...

contains the text of the Gospel of Matthew, on 176 parchment leaves (size ). The text is written in one column per page, 28-30 lines per page. The text is divided according to the (''chapters''), whose numbers are given at the margin, with their (''titles'') at the top of the pages.

Text

The Greek text of the codex is a representative of the Byzantine text-type. Aland placed it in Category V.

History

Scrivener and Gregory dated the manuscript to the 13th century. The manuscript is currently 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 13th century. The manuscript was added to the list of New Testament manuscripts by Scrivener (755) and Gregory (737). It was examined and described by

Paulin Martin Jean-Pierre-Paulin MartinSometimes referred to as Jean P.P. Martin. (20 July 1840 at Lacam-d'Ourcet, Lot – 14 January 1890 at Amélie-les-Bains, Pyrénées-Orientales), often referred to as Abbé Paulin Martin, or simply Abbé Martin or Pau ...

. Jean-Pierre-Paul Martin, ''Description technique des manuscrits grecs, relatif au N. T., conservé dans les bibliothèques des Paris'' (Paris 1883), p. 99 Gregory saw the manuscript in 1885. The manuscript is now housed at the

Bibliothèque nationale de France The Bibliothèque nationale de France (, 'National Library of France'; BnF) is the national library of France, located in Paris on two main sites known respectively as ''Richelieu'' and ''François-Mitterrand''. It is the national repository ...

(Gr. 204) in Paris.

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