Minuscule 120 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), ε 1202 ( Soden), is a

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of the

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, on parchment leaves. Palaeographically it has been assigned to the 12th or 13th 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

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The codex contains a complete text of the

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s of Matthew, Luke, John on 183 (177 + 6) parchment leaves (size ). The text is written in one column per page, 30 lines per page (size of text 12 by 8 cm). The large initial letters in gold, the ink is black. The leaves 40-67 with Gospel of Mark were lost. The text of the Gospels is divided according to the (''chapters''), whose numbers are given at the margin, and (''titles of chapters'') of these are inserted at the top of the pages. The text has also another division according to the smaller Ammonian Sections. It has no references to the

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Text

The Greek text of the codex is a representative of the

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. Aland placed it in Category V. According to Gregory textually it is very close to the codex

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. According to the

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it represents textual family K^x in Luke 1, Luke 10, and Luke 20. It belongs to the textual cluster 17 along with manuscripts 30, 70,

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, and

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History

Formerly the manuscript belonged to St. Victor on the Walls. Probably it was used by

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in his

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and was designed by him as ιδ'. The manuscript was examined and described by Griesbach and

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. Jean-Pierre-Paul Martin, ''Description technique des manuscrits grecs, relatif au Nouveau Testament, conservé dans les bibliothèques des Paris'' (Paris 1883), p. 52, 106

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saw it in 1885 and 1891. It is currently housed at the

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(Supp. Gr. 185), at

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