Minuscule 655


Minuscule 655, ε 177, is a Greek minuscule manuscript of the New Testament, on parchment. Palaeographically it has been assigned to the 12th century. The manuscript has complex contents. Scrivener labelled it by 635e.

Description

The codex contains the text of the four Gospels, on 324 parchment leaves. The text is written in one column per page, 23 lines per page. It contains the Epistula ad Carpianum, the Eusebian tables, Prolegomena, lists of the κεφαλαια. The text is divided according to the numbered κεφαλαια, with their τιτλοι at the top, and according to the Ammonian Sections, with references to the Eusebian Canons. It contains also the Harmony at the foot, subscriptions at the end of books, stichoi, and pictures of Evangelists.
It contains some notes of Clemens of Alexandria and John Chrysostom.

Text

The Greek text of the codex is a representative of the Byzantine text-type. Hermann von Soden classified it as K1, which according to him represents the earliest stage of the Byzantine text. Kurt Aland placed it in Category V. According to the Wisse's Profile Method it has mixed the Byzantine text in Luke 1 and Luke 10, and Kx text in Luke 20.
The texts of the Christ's agony, John 5:3-4, and the Pericope Adulterae are marked with an obelus. It means the authenticity of these texts were doubtful for the scribe.

History

Scrivener dated the manuscript to the 11th or 12th century, Gregory dated it to the 11th century. Currently the manuscript is dated by the INTF to the 11th or 12th century.
The manuscript was not cited in the editions of the Novum Testamentum Graece.
Formerly the manuscript was housed in Berlin.
Currently the manuscript is housed at the Berlin State Library, in Berlin.