Minuscule 177 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), α 106 ( Soden), is a

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of the

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, on 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. 57. Formerly it was labelled by 179^a, 128^p, and 82^r. It has

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Description

The codex contains the text of the

Acts of the Apostles The Acts of the Apostles ( grc-koi, Πράξεις Ἀποστόλων, ''Práxeis Apostólōn''; la, Actūs Apostolōrum) is the fifth book of the New Testament; it tells of the founding of the Christian Church and the spread of its messag ...

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, and

Book of Revelation The Book of Revelation is the final book of the New Testament (and consequently the final book of the Christian Bible). Its title is derived from the first word of the Koine Greek text: , meaning "unveiling" or "revelation". The Book of R ...

on 225 parchment leaves (size ). The text is written in one column per page, in 25 lines per page. 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. It contains prolegomena, fragments of the Eusebian Canon tables, numbers of at the end of each book, and marginal notes to the Pauline epistles. It has also a treatise of

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on the

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and twelve apostles (as codices 82, 93, 459,

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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. The text is very close to the

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. It contains the

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(in 1 John 5:7) at the margin added in the 17th or 18th century.

History

The manuscript once belonged to Zomozerab, the Bohemian. The portion of the manuscript which contains the text of the Apocalypse was collated by

Franz Delitzsch Franz Delitzsch (23 February 1813, in Leipzig – 4 March 1890, in Leipzig) was a German Lutheran theologian and Hebraist. Delitzsch wrote many commentaries on books of the Bible, Jewish antiquities, Biblical psychology, as well as a history of J ...

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saw the manuscript in 1887. It was added to the list of New Testament manuscripts by Scholz. Formerly it was labelled by 179^a, 128^p, and 82^r. In 1908 Gregory gave the number 177 to it. It is currently housed at the

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(Gr. 211), at

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Minuscule 177
at the ''Encyclopedia of Textual Criticism'' {{DEFAULTSORT:Minuscule 0177 Greek New Testament minuscules 11th-century biblical manuscripts

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