Minuscule 633 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), α 451 (von Soden), is a Greek minuscule manuscript of the New Testament, on paper. Palaeographically, it has been assigned to the 14th century. The manuscript is lacunose.K. Aland, M. Welte, B. Köster, K. Junack, "Kurzgefasste Liste der griechischen Handschriften des Neues Testaments", Walter de Gruyter, Berlin, New York 1994, p. 84. Formerly it was labelled by 168a and 205p.
Description
The codex contains the text of the Acts of the Apostles, Catholic epistles, Pauline epistles, on 204 paper leaves (size ), with only one lacuna (Acts 1:1-7:23). The text is written in one column per page, 40 lines per page.
It contains Prolegomena, the , subscriptions at the end of each book, and .
The order of books: Acts of the Apostles, Catholic epistles, and Pauline epistles. Epistle to the Hebrews is placed after Epistle to Philemon.
Text
The Greek text of the codex is a representative of the Byzantine text-type. Kurt Aland placed it in Category V.
History
The manuscript is dated by the INTF to the 14th century.Handschriftenliste at the Münster Institute
The manuscript was added to the list of New Testament manuscripts by Johann Martin Augustin Scholz, who slightly examined the manuscript.Scholz, Biblisch-kritische Reise in Frankreich, der Schweiz, Italien, Palästine und im Archipel in den Jahren 1818, 1819, 1820, 1821: Nebst einer Geschichte des Textes des Neuen Testaments (Leipzig, 1823)
Formerly it was labelled by 168a and 205p. In 1908 Gregory gave the number 633 to it.
The manuscript currently is housed at the Biblioteca Vallicelliana (F. 13), at Rome.
See also
List of New Testament minuscules Biblical manuscript Textual criticism
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