{{New Testament manuscript infobox | form = Minuscule | number = '''640''' | image = | isize = | caption= | name = | sign = | text = Epistle of James 1:1-23 | script = Greek | date = 11th century | found = | now at = British Library | cite = | size = {{×|24.3|19.6}} | type = Byzantine text-type | cat = V | hand = very minute | note = wonderful beauty }}
'''Minuscule 640''' (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), Ο<sup>πρ 262</sup> (von Soden),<ref name=Gregory1908>{{cite book |last=Gregory |first=Caspar René |author-link=Caspar René Gregory |year=1908 |title=Die griechischen Handschriften des Neuen Testament |publisher=J. C. Hinrichs'sche Buchhandlung |location=Leipzig |page=70 |url=https://archive.org/stream/diegriechischen00greggoog#page/n81/mode/2up}}</ref> is a Greek minuscule manuscript of the New Testament, on parchment. Palaeographically to the 11th century. The manuscript is very fragmentary.<ref name=Aland>K. Aland, M. Welte, B. Köster, K. Junack, "Kurzgefasste Liste der griechischen Handschriften des Neues Testaments", ''Walter de Gruyter'', Berlin, New York 1994, p. 85.</ref> Scrivener labeled it by 230<sup>a</sup>, Gregory by 203<sup>a</sup>.<ref name=Scrivener>{{cite book |last=Scrivener |first=Frederick Henry Ambrose |author-link=Frederick Henry Ambrose Scrivener |last2=Miller |first2=Edward |year=1894 |title=A Plain Introduction to the Criticism of the New Testament |edition=4th |volume=1 |publisher=George Bell & Sons |location=London |page=300}}</ref>
==Description== The codex contains the text of the Epistle of James 1:1-23 on 2 parchment leaves (size {{×|24.3|19.6}}). The text is written in one column per page, 17 lines per page for biblical text, and 37-45 lines per page for a commentary.<ref name=Aland/> The manuscript is of wonderful beauty.<ref name=Scrivener/>
It contains the illuminated head-pieces, the {{lang|grc|κεφαλαια}} at the top of the pages, with a commentary on three sides of the text in a very minute hand.<ref name=Scrivener/><ref name=Gregory>{{cite book |last=Gregory |first=Caspar René |author-link=Caspar René Gregory |year=1900 |title=Textkritik des Neuen Testaments |volume=1 |location=Leipzig |page=280 |url=https://archive.org/stream/textkritikdesne00greggoog#page/n293/mode/2up}}</ref>
==Text== The Greek text of the codex is a representative of the Byzantine text-type. Kurt Aland placed it in Category V.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Aland |first1=Kurt |author-link1=Kurt Aland |last2=Aland |first2=Barbara |author-link2=Barbara Aland |others=Erroll F. Rhodes (trans.) |year=1995 |title=The Text of the New Testament: An Introduction to the Critical Editions and to the Theory and Practice of Modern Textual Criticism |publisher=William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company |location=Grand Rapids |page=139 |isbn=978-0-8028-4098-1}}</ref>
==History== The manuscript is dated by the INTF to the 11th century.<ref name=INTF>[http://intf.uni-muenster.de/vmr/NTVMR/ListeHandschriften.php Handschriftenliste] at the Münster Institute</ref>
The manuscript was presented by Harris from Alexandria to the British Museum.<ref name=Scrivener/> The manuscript was added to the list of New Testament manuscripts by Scrivener (230<sup>a</sup>) and Gregory (203<sup>a</sup>). Gregory saw the manuscript in 1883.<ref name=Gregory/> In 1908 Gregory gave the number 640 to it.<ref name=Gregory1908/>
The manuscript currently is housed at the British Library (Add MS 19392A).<ref name=Aland/><ref name=INTF/>
==See also== {{Portal|Bible}} *List of New Testament minuscules *Biblical manuscript *Textual criticism
==References== {{Reflist}}
==Further reading== *{{cite book |last=Gregory |first=Caspar René |author-link=Caspar René Gregory |year=1900 |title=Textkritik des Neuen Testaments |publisher=J. C. Hinrichs |location=Leipzig |volume=1 |page=280 |url=https://archive.org/stream/textkritikdesne00greggoog#page/n293/mode/2up}}
{{DEFAULTSORT:Minuscule 0640}} Category:Greek New Testament minuscules Category:11th-century biblical manuscripts Category:British Library additional manuscripts