Minuscule 619 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), α 57 (von Soden), is a Greek minuscule manuscript of the New Testament, on parchment. It is dated by a colophon to the 984.K. Aland, M. Welte, B. Köster, K. Junack, "Kurzgefasste Liste der griechischen Handschriften des Neues Testaments", Walter de Gruyter, Berlin, New York 1994, p. 83. The manuscript has complex contents. Tischendorf labelled it by 148a and 184p.
Description
The codex contains the text of the Acts of the Apostles, Pauline epistles on 342 parchment leaves (size ). The text is written in one column per page, 15 lines per page for the biblical text, 46 lines per page for a commentary.
It contains Prolegomena, numbers of the (chapters) at the margin, the (titles) at the top, and a commentary.
The order of books: Acts of the Apostles, Catholic epistles, and Pauline epistles. Hebrews is placed after Epistle to Philemon.
Text
The Greek text of the codex Aland did not place in any Category.
History
The manuscript was written in A.D. 984, Indict 12, by Theophylact, priest and doctor of law. It once belonged to the Benedictine Library of St. Mary. It was examined by Bernard de Montfaucon.
Formerly it was labelled by 148a and 184p. In 1908 Gregory gave the number 619 to it.
The manuscript was added to the list of New Testament manuscripts by Johann Martin Augustin Scholz. Gregory saw the manuscript in 1886.
The manuscript currently is housed at the Laurentian Library (Conv. Supr. 191), at Florence.
See also
List of New Testament minuscules Biblical manuscript Textual criticism Minuscule 620
References
Further reading
Bernard de Montfaucon, Palaeographia graeca (1708), p. 282. Kirsopp Lake & Silva Lake, Dated Greek Minuscule Manuscripts to the Year 1200, Boston IV, 155.