Minuscule 116 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), ε 249 ( Soden), or "Codex Harleianus 5567" is a

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of the

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, on parchment leaves. Palaeographically it has been assigned to the 12th century.K. Aland, M. Welte, B. Köster, K. Junack, "Kurzgefasste Liste der griechischen Handschriften des Neues Testaments", ''

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'', Berlin, New York 1994, p. 53. It has complex contents with some marginalia.

Description

The codex contains a complete text of the four

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s on 300 parchment leaves (size ), 4 unfoliated paper leaves at the beginning, and 3 at the end. The text is written in one column per page, in 23 lines per page. The large initial letters are written in gold and colours. The headpieces with geometric and foliate decoration in gold and colours (folios 15r, 93r, 145r, 229r). The end of John is written in

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.Harley 5566
at the ''British Library'' The text is divided according to the (''chapters''), whose numbers are given at the margin, and their (''titles of chapters'') at the top of the pages. There is also another division according to the smaller Ammonian Sections (in Mark 241 sections – the last numbered section ends in 16:20). It has no references to the

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. It contains the Eusebian Canon tables with geometric decorations in gold and colour (on folios 9-13), tables of the (''tables of contents'') before each Gospel, (''lessons''), numbers of , and synaxaria. The

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was added in the 13th century (folios 1-8, 291-296v). The initial letters in colours.

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are written in red or purple. There is an inscription on folio 1 'Bernard Mould Smyrna 1724'.

Text

The Greek text of the codex is a representative of the

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. Kurt Aland placed it in Category V. According to the

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it represents mixed Byzantine text (mixture of Byzantine textual families) in Luke 1 and Luke 10. In Luke 20 it belongs to the textual cluster 1167.

History

The manuscript is dated to the 12th century. On folio 92 verso it has inscription "Nikolaos Kataphaga of Katharak". According to the inscriptions on folio 92 verso and folio 141 verso it belonged to Athanasios, hieromonk at St John Prodromos. In 1649 it belonged to Athananius, a Greek monk, in 1724 to Bernard Mould (b. c. 1683; d. 1744), English chaplain at

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, who owned it in 1724 (as

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). It was sold to Edward Harley on 28 July 1725. In 1753, it was purchased by the British government along with the collections for the

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. It was examined by Griesbach, Bloomfield, Henri Omont, and Cyril Ernest Wright. C. R. Gregory saw it in 1883. It was rebound in 1967. It is currently housed at the

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(

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MS 5567).

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at the ''British Library'' {{DEFAULTSORT:Minuscule 0116 Greek New Testament minuscules 12th-century biblical manuscripts Harleian Collection

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