Minuscule 653 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), ε 182 ( von Soden), is a

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of the

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, on parchment. It is dated by a colophon to the year 1077. The manuscript has not complex contents.K. Aland, M. Welte, B. Köster, K. Junack, "Kurzgefasste Liste der griechischen Handschriften des Neues Testaments", ''

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'', Berlin, New York 1994, p. 85.Handschriftenliste
at the Münster Institute

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labelled it by 640^e.

Description

The codex contains the text of the

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and

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, on 267 parchment leaves (size ). The text is written in one column per page, 16 lines per page. The text is divided according to the (''chapters''), whose numbers are given at the margin, and their (''titles'') at the top of the pages. There is also another division according to the smaller Ammonian Sections, whose numbers are given at the margin, with a references to the

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. It contains the tables of the before each Gospel, lectionary markings, music notes (in red), subscriptions, and numbered .

Text

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did not place the Greek text of the codex it in any

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History

The manuscript was written by Markus, a scribe. It was brought from Sinai to Berlin by

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along with the codex

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and

Minuscule 658 Minuscule 658 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), ε 1215 ( von Soden), is a Greek minuscule manuscript of the New Testament, on parchment. Palaeographically it has been assigned to the 12th or 13th century. The manuscript has complex contents.K. ...

. Gregory saw the manuscript in 1887. It was housed in Berlin ( Konig. Bibl. Gr. Oktavo 3). One leaf of the codex was brought to Petersburg in 1912.

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examined one leaf of the codex (housed in Petersburg). At the end of 1943 year has increased the frequency of the

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. The Prussian State Library sent many collections out of Berlin to be sheltered in

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for safekeeping. As the result of postwar border changes some of these collections were found in Poland (among them 266 folios of minuscule 653). They were moved to the Jagiellonian University Library.Sroka Marek, ''The Music Collection of the Former Prussian State Library at the Jagiellonian Library in Kraków, Poland: Past, Present, and Future Developments'', Library Trends - Volume 55, Number 3, Winter 2007, pp. 651-664 Actually 266 folios of the manuscript are housed at the

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(Fonds der Berliner Hss., Graec. Octavo 3), in

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. One folio of the codex is housed at the

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(Gr. 292) in

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