Minuscule 1093 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), ε1443 ( von Soden), is a 14th-century

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of the

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on parchment. The manuscript has survived in complete condition.

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The

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contains the text of the four

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s with a commentary on 190 parchment leaves (size ). The text is written in one column per page, 25 lines per page. The text is divided according to chapters (), whose numbers are given at the margin, and their titles () at the top of the pages. The later hand added also another division according to the smaller Ammonian Sections, but without references to the

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. It contains pictures of the four Evangelists before each Gospel and subscriptions at the end of each Gospel.

Text

The Greek text of the codex has a mixture of the

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Hermann von Soden Baron Hermann von Soden (16 August 1852 – 15 January 1914) was a German Biblical scholar, minister, professor of divinity, and textual theorist. Life Born in Cincinnati, Ohio, on August 16, 1852, Soden was educated at the University of Tübinge ...

included it to the textual family I (Caesarean text-type).

Kurt Aland Kurt Aland (28 March 1915 – 13 April 1994) was a German theologian and biblical scholar who specialized in New Testament textual criticism. He founded the '' Institut für neutestamentliche Textforschung'' (Institute for New Testament Textua ...

did not place the Greek text of the codex in any

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. According to the

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it has a mixture of

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s in Luke 1, Luke 10, and Luke 20. It lacks the text of Matthew 16:2b–3 (''Signs of the times'').

History

According to the colophon the manuscript was written in 1302 by a scribe called Michael Morraites for the priest Clemens. The manuscript was added to the list of New Testament manuscripts by Gregory (1093^e).

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saw it in 1886. In 1908 Gregory gave the

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1093 to it. Currently the manuscript is housed at the Agiou Panteleimonos monastery (28), at

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Minuscule 1093 Greek New Testament minuscules 14th-century biblical manuscripts

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