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of the

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, on paper. Palaeographically it has been assigned to the 13th century.

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It contains the text of the four

Gospel Gospel originally meant the Christian message ("the gospel"), but in the 2nd century it came to be used also for the books in which the message was set out. In this sense a gospel can be defined as a loose-knit, episodic narrative of the words an ...

s on 333 paper leaves (24.2 by 17.3). The text is written in 1 column per page, 24 lines per page. It contains numerals of the at the margin (in Coptic and Greek), the Ammonian Sections, the

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, and illuminations. The manuscript omits the additions in Matthew 17:11; Luke 22:43.44 (the agony); John 5:3.4 (the descent of the angel); Pericope Adultera (7:53-8:11), but contains those of Matthew 23:13 (after verse 14); Luke 23:17.34.

Constantin von Tischendorf Lobegott Friedrich Constantin (von) Tischendorf (18 January 18157 December 1874) was a German biblical scholar. In 1844, he discovered the world's oldest and most complete Bible dated to around the mid-4th century and called Codex Sinaiticus a ...

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'', vol. III, p. 849. The manuscript was examined by Lightfoot and

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used it in his edition of the Bohairic New Testament.George Horner, ''The Coptic Version of the New Testament in the Northern Dialect, otherwise called Memphitic and Bohairic'', 4 vols. (1898-1905; repr. Osnabrück, 1969). Currently it is housed at the

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(Huntington 20) in

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