Minuscule 125 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), ε 1028 ( Von Soden numbering). It is a Greek

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of the

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on a parchment. Palaeographically it has been assigned to the 11th 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. 54. The manuscript has survived in complete condition. It has with full

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(completed by a later hand).

Description

The manuscript contains the text of the four

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s on 306 parchment leaves (). The text is written in one column per page, 23 lines per page. The capital letters are written in colour. The text is divided according to the (''chapters''), whose numbers are given at the margin of the text, and their (''titles of chapters'') at the top of the pages. There is also another division according to the smaller Ammonian Sections (

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234), with references to the

Eusebian Canons Eusebian canons, Eusebian sections or Eusebian apparatus, also known as Ammonian sections, are the system of dividing the four Gospels used between late Antiquity and the Middle Ages. The divisions into chapters and verses used in modern texts d ...

(written below Ammonian Section numbers). It contains prolegomena of Cosmas (added by a later hand), tables of the (''tables of contents'') before each Gospel, lectionary markings (later hand) at the margin, and pictures. Subscriptions with numbers of and numbers of verses were added at the end of each Gospel by a later hand. It has many corrections in the margin and between the lines.

Text

The Greek text of the codex is a representative of the

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. Aland placed it to Category V. According to the

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it represents the textual family K^x in Luke 1 and Luke 20. In Luke 10 no profile was made.

History

It was examined by Treschow,

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, and

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. Alter used it in his edition of the Greek text of the New Testament.''Novum Testamentum Graecum, ad Codicem Vindobonensem Graece expressum: Varietam Lectionis addidit Franciscus Carolus Alter'', 2 vols. 8vo, Vienna, 1786-1787.

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saw it in 1887. Currently the codex is located at the

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(Theol. Gr. 60) at

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Minuscule 0125 Greek New Testament minuscules 11th-century biblical manuscripts Biblical manuscripts of the Austrian National Library

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