Minuscule 179 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), ε 211 ( Soden), is a

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of the

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, on parchment. 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. 57. It has

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Description

The codex contains an almost complete text of the four

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s on 249 thick parchment leaves (size ), with some lacunae. The text is written in one column per page, in 21-23 lines per page, in dark-brown ink; the capital letters in red. The last five leaves (214-218) and two others (23, 30) are paper, and were added later in the 15th or 16th century. 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 a division according to the Ammonian Sections, with references to the

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(written below Ammonian Section numbers). It contains the Eusebian Canon tables at the beginning, lists of the (''lists of contents'') before each Gospel, and lectionary markings at the margin for liturgical use.

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and

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were added in the 15th or 16th century on paper.

Text

The Greek text of the manuscript is mostly the

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, but it is not pure Byzantine.

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did not place it in any

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. It is classified to the textual Family 1424. According to the

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it represents textual family K^x in Luke 10 and Luke 20. In Luke 1 it has mixed text.

History

It was examined by

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(about 1782),A. Birch,
Variae Lectiones ad Textum IV Evangeliorum
', Haunie 1801, p. LVI and Scholz.

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saw it in 1886. It is currently housed at the

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(11), at

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Minuscule 179
at the ''Encyclopedia of Textual Criticism'' {{DEFAULTSORT:Minuscule 0179 Greek New Testament minuscules 12th-century biblical manuscripts

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