Minuscule 1356 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), ε1087 ( von Soden), is an 11th-century Greek

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of the

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on parchment. The manuscript has complex contents.

Description

The

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contains the text of the four

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s, on 303 parchment leaves (size ). The Gospels are placed in the order: Matthew, Luke, Mark and John. The same order has

Minuscule 392 Minuscule 392 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), Θε23 ( Soden), is a Greek minuscule manuscript of the New Testament, on parchment. Paleographically it has been assigned to the 12th century. It has marginalia. Description The codex conta ...

and

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. The text is written in two columns per page, 22 lines per page. The large initial letters are in red. The manuscripts is ornamented. It contains miniatures of the four Apostles. The text is divided according to the (''chapters''), whose numbers are given at the margin, and their (''titles'') 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 in 16:20), whose numbers are given at the margin with references to the Eusebian Canons (written below Ammonian Section numbers). It contains many notes made by later hand. It contains the

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at the beginning, Eusebian Canon tables, Prolegomena, tables of the (''tables of contents'') before each Gospel. It contains subscriptions at the end of each Gospel with numbers of verses and numbers of . According to

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 ...

it contains also lectionary markings (for church readings) at the margin and pictures.

Text

The Greek text of the codex is a representative of the Byzantine text-type.

classified it to the textual family K^x.

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 ...

placed it in Category V. According to the

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it represents the textual cluster M

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in Luke 1 and Luke 20, but it is very weak member of this cluster in Luke 1. In Luke 10 no profile was made. The Pericope Adulterae (John 7:53-8:11) is placed at the end of the Gospel of John.

History

Gregory dated the manuscript to the 12 or 13th century, other palaeographers dated it to the 10th or 11th century. Currently the manuscript is dated by the

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to the 11th century. The manuscript was added to the list of New Testament manuscripts by Gregory (1356^e). Gregory saw it in 1906. The manuscript was first described by

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in 1897. It was examined and described by Kenneth Willis Clark in 1937. Formerly the manuscript was housed in Jerusalem (Anastaseos 7). Then it was brought to United States. Currently the manuscript is housed at the

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(Ms. W. 532), in

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