Codex Seidelianus II designated by H^e or 013 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), ε 88 ( von Soden), is a Greek

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of the four

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s, dated palaeographically to the 9th century. The manuscript is lacunose.

Description

The codex contains 194 parchment leaves (). The text is written in one column per page, and 23 lines per column. The codex contains the text of the four Gospels with major lacunae ( Matt. 1:1-15:30, 25:33-26:3,

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1:32-2:4, 15:44-16:14,

Luke People *Luke (given name), a masculine given name (including a list of people and characters with the name) *Luke (surname) (including a list of people and characters with the name) *Luke the Evangelist, author of the Gospel of Luke. Also known as ...

5:18-32, 6:8-22, 10:2-19,

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9:30-10:25, 18:2-18, 20:12-25). The codex contains lists of the (lists of contents), numbers of the (''chapters'') at the margin, the (''titles'') at the top, the Ammonian Sections but not the

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. It has breathings and accents.

Text

The Greek text of this

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is a representative of the

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. Aland gave to it textual profile 174¹ 82^1/2 2² 7^s and placed it in Category V. It belongs to the textual

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, but according to the

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it represents the textual family K^x.

History

The codex was brought from the East by Erasmus Seidel at the beginning of the 17th century, together with ''Codex Seidelianus I''. Maturin Veyssière de La Croze bought it 1718, in the same time as Seidelianus I.C. v. Tischendorf
''Novum Testamentum Graece. Editio Septima''
Lipsiae 1859, p. CLVI. Since 1838 the codex is located in Hamburg Universitätsbibliothek (Cod. 91). One leaf of the codex is housed at

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(B XVII 20.21). It was examined by Petersen,

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, Tregelles, Tischendorf, and Gregory.

References

External links

* R. Waltz
Codex Seidelianus II H^e (013)
at the ''Encyclopedia of Textual Criticism''. {{DEFAULTSORT:Seidelianus II Greek New Testament uncials 9th-century biblical manuscripts Manuscripts in Cambridge

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