Minuscule 737 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), Θε306 (von Soden),Hermann von Soden, 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 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 755e.
Description
The codex 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 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-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 (Gr. 204) in Paris.
See also
List of New Testament minuscules Biblical manuscript Textual criticism
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