Minuscule 85

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Minuscule 85
New Testament manuscript
NameCodex Monacensis 569
TextGospels
Date13th century
ScriptGreek
Now atBavarian State Library
Size14 cm by 9.7 cm
Type?
Categorynone
Handbeautifully written
Notemarginalia

Minuscule 85 (in the

minuscule manuscript of the New Testament, on parchment leaves. Palaeographically it has been assigned to the 13th century.[2] It has marginalia
.

Description

The codex contains the text of the four Gospels, with numerous lacunae, on 30 parchment leaves (size 14 cm by 9.7 cm), with numerous lacunae. The text is written in one column per page, 25 lines per page (size of text 10.1 by 6.2).[2] The initial letters are written in red.

The text is divided according to the κεφαλαια (chapters), whose numbers are given at the margin, and the τιτλοι (titles of chapters) at the top of the pages. There is also a division according to the Ammonian Sections, (no references to the Eusebian Canons).[3]

It contains lectionary markings at the margin (for liturgical use), and incipits.[3][4]

Contents

Matthew 8:15-9:17; 16:12-17.20; 24:26-45; 26:35-54; Mark 6:13-9.45; Luke 3:12-6.44; John 9:11-12:5; 19:6-24; 20:23-21:9.

Text

The Greek text of the codex Kurt Aland did not place in any Category.[5] It was not examined by the Claremont Profile Method.[6]

History

The manuscript used to be held in Augsburg (as codices 83, 84).[3]

It was examined by

C. R. Gregory saw it in 1887.[4]

It is housed in at the

See also

References

  1. ^ Gregory, Caspar René (1908). Die griechischen Handschriften des Neuen Testament. Leipzig: J. C. Hinrichs'sche Buchhandlung. p. 51.
  2. ^
    Walter de Gruyter
    , Berlin, New York 1994, p. 51.
  3. ^ a b c Gregory, Caspar René (1900). Textkritik des Neuen Testaments. Vol. 1. Leipzig: J.C. Hinrichs. p. 148.
  4. ^ a b Scrivener, Frederick Henry Ambrose; Edward Miller (1894). A Plain Introduction to the Criticism of the New Testament. Vol. 1. London: George Bell & Sons. p. 206.
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