Editing Minuscule 659 (section)

== History ==

Scrivener and Gregory dated the manuscript to the 12th century.<sup>[5]</sup><sup>[6]</sup> Currently the manuscript is dated by the [[Institute for New Testament Textual Research|INTF]] to the 12th century.<sup>[4]</sup>

The manuscript was written by one Hilarion.<sup>[1]</sup> It was brought from the East to Berlin.<sup>[6]</sup> Gregory saw the manuscript in 1887.<sup>[6]</sup> It was examined and described by Kirsopp Lake and Silva New.<sup>[9]</sup> The manuscript was housed in Berlin in the [[Berlin State Library|Preußische Königliche Bibliothek]] (then Prussian State Library, actually Berlin State Library) with the shelf-number Gr. quarto 55.<sup>[5]</sup><sup>[6]</sup>

At the end of 1943 the year saw increased frequency of the [[Bombing of Berlin in World War II|bombing of Berlin]]. The Prussian State Library sent many collections out of Berlin to be sheltered in [[Silesia]] for safekeeping. As the result of postwar border changes some of these collections were found in Poland (among them minuscule 659). They were moved to the Jagiellonian University Library.<sup>[10]</sup>

Currently the manuscript is housed at the [[Biblioteka Jagiellońska]] (Fonds der Berliner Handschriften, Graec. quarto 55), in [[Kraków]].<sup>[3]</sup><sup>[4]</sup>