{{New Testament manuscript infobox | form = Minuscule | number = '''655''' | image = | isize = | caption= | name = | sign = | text = Gospels † | script = Greek | date = 11th / 12th century | found = | now at = Berlin State Library | cite = | size = {{×|24|19}} | type = Byzantine text-type | cat = V | hand = | note = }}

'''Minuscule 655''' (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), ε 177 (von Soden),<ref>Hermann von Soden. "Die Schriften des Neuen Testaments, in ihrer ältesten erreichbaren Textgestalt hergestellt auf Grund ihrer Textgeschichte". Berlin 1902–1910, p. 144.</ref><ref name = Gregory1908>{{cite book|last=Gregory|first=Caspar René|author-link=Caspar René Gregory|title=Die griechischen Handschriften des Neuen Testament|url=https://archive.org/stream/diegriechischen00greggoog#page/n81/mode/2up|year=1908|publisher=J. C. Hinrichs'sche Buchhandlung|location=Leipzig|page=71}}</ref> 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.<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. 86.</ref><ref name = INTF>[http://intf.uni-muenster.de/vmr/NTVMR/ListeHandschriften.php Handschriftenliste] at the Münster Institute</ref> Scrivener labelled it by 635<sup>e</sup>.<ref name = Scrivener>{{Cite book | last = Scrivener | first = Frederick Henry Ambrose | author-link = Frederick Henry Ambrose Scrivener |author2=Edward Miller | title = A Plain Introduction to the Criticism of the New Testament, vol. 1 | publisher = George Bell & Sons | year = 1894 | location = London | edition = 4 | page = 264 }}</ref>

== Description ==

The codex contains the text of the four Gospels, on 324 parchment leaves (size {{×|24|19}}). The text is written in one column per page, 23 lines per page.<ref name = Aland/> It contains the Epistula ad Carpianum, the Eusebian tables, Prolegomena, lists of the {{lang|grc|κεφαλαια}} (before every Gospel). The text is divided according to the numbered {{lang|grc|κεφαλαια}} (''chapters''), with their {{lang|grc|τιτλοι}} (''titles'') at the top, and according to the Ammonian Sections (in Mark 241 Sections – the last in 16:19), 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.<ref name = Scrivener/><ref name = Gregory>{{Cite book | last = Gregory | first = Caspar René | author-link = Caspar René Gregory | title = Textkritik des Neuen Testaments, Vol. 1 | year = 1900 | location = Leipzig | page = 209 | url = https://archive.org/stream/textkritikdesne00greggoog#page/n221/mode/2up }}</ref> It contains some notes of Clemens of Alexandria and John Chrysostom.<ref name = Gregory/>

== Text ==

The Greek text of the codex is a representative of the Byzantine text-type. Hermann von Soden classified it as K<sup>1</sup>, which according to him represents the earliest stage of the Byzantine text. Kurt Aland placed it in Category V.<ref>{{Cite book | last1 = Aland | first1 = Kurt | author-link = Kurt Aland | last2 = Aland | first2 = Barbara | author-link2 = Barbara Aland | others = Erroll F. Rhodes (trans.) | 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 | year = 1995 | location = Grand Rapids | page = [https://archive.org/details/textnewtestament00kurt/page/n161 139] | url = https://archive.org/details/textnewtestament00kurt | url-access = limited | isbn = 978-0-8028-4098-1}}</ref> According to the Wisse's Profile Method it has mixed the Byzantine text in Luke 1 and Luke 10, and K<sup>x</sup> text in Luke 20.<ref>{{Cite book | last = Wisse | first = Frederik | title = The Profile Method for the Classification and Evaluation of Manuscript Evidence, as Applied to the Continuous Greek Text of the Gospel of Luke | publisher = William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company | year = 1982 | location = Grand Rapids | page = [https://archive.org/details/profilemethodfor00wiss/page/64 64] | url = https://archive.org/details/profilemethodfor00wiss/page/64 | isbn = 0-8028-1918-4 | url-access = registration }}</ref>

The texts of the Christ's agony (Luke 22:43-44), John 5:3-4, and the Pericope Adulterae (John 7:53-8:11) are marked with an obelus.<ref name = Gregory/> It means the authenticity of these texts were doubtful for the scribe.

== History ==

Scrivener dated the manuscript to the 11th or 12th century,<ref name = Scrivener/> Gregory dated it to the 11th century.<ref name = Gregory/> Currently the manuscript is dated by the INTF to the 11th or 12th century.<ref name="INTF"/>

The manuscript was not cited in the editions of the Novum Testamentum Graece (UBS3/UBS4, NA26/NA27).

Formerly the manuscript was housed in Berlin (''Königliche Bibliothek'', Gr. quarto 39).<ref name = Scrivener/><ref name = Gregory/>

Currently the manuscript is housed at the Berlin State Library (Graec. quarto 39), in Berlin.<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 | title = Textkritik des Neuen Testaments | publisher = Hinrichs | year = 1900 | location = Leipzig | volume = 1 | page = 209 | url = https://archive.org/stream/textkritikdesne00greggoog#page/n221/mode/2up }}

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