Minuscule 642

Minuscule 642
New Testament manuscript
TextActs of the Apostles, Catholic epistles, Pauline epistles †
Date14th century
ScriptGreek
Now atLambeth Palace
Size21.1 cm by 14.8 cm
TypeByzantine text-type
CategoryIII/V

Minuscule 642 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), α 552 (von Soden),[1] is a Greek minuscule manuscript of the New Testament, on paper. Palaeographically it has been assigned to the 14th century. The manuscript is lacunose.[2] Gregory labelled it by 217a and 273p; Scrivener labelled it by 185a and 255p.[3]

  1. ^ Gregory, Caspar René (1908). Die griechischen Handschriften des Neuen Testament. Leipzig: J. C. Hinrichs'sche Buchhandlung. p. 70.
  2. ^ 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.
  3. ^ Scrivener, Frederick Henry Ambrose; Edward Miller (1894). A Plain Introduction to the Criticism of the New Testament, vol. 1 (4 ed.). London: George Bell & Sons. p. 296.