Minuscule 2444 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), is a Greek

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of the

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, on 309 paper leaves (22 cm by 15 cm). It is dated paleographically to the 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. 188.Handschriftenliste
at the Münster Institute Some leaves of the codex were lost.

Description

The codex contains the text of the four

Gospel Gospel originally meant the Christian message ("the gospel"), but in the 2nd century it came to be used also for the books in which the message was set out. In this sense a gospel can be defined as a loose-knit, episodic narrative of the words an ...

s with some lacunae. The text is written in one column per page, in 22 lines per page. The decorated headpieces, the large initials are rubricated and in colour, the small initials in red. It has breathings and accents. The

nomina sacra In Christian scribal practice, nomina sacra (singular: ''nomen sacrum'' from Latin ''sacred name'') is the abbreviation of several frequently occurring divine names or titles, especially in Greek manuscripts of the Bible. A nomen sacrum consists ...

are written in an abbreviated way. Error of itacism is frequent. The text is divided according to the (''chapters''), whose numbers are given at the margin, but there is no their (''titles'') at the top and bottom. There is also another division according to the smaller Ammonian Sections with a references to the Eusebian Canons. The tables of the (''tables of contents'') are placed before

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, and John. The table of the to Matthew has been lost. Some notes and textual corrections were made at the margin.

Text

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

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did not place it in any Category. It was not examined by using the

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. It contains the Pericope Adulterae (John 7:53-8:11). In John 21:23 it lacks the phrase divi in the main text, but it was added at the margin. : John 1:28 – Βηθανια ] βιθαβαρα

History

The codex now is located in the

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(Ms. 4).

Gallery

File:Minuscule 2444 (GA) 084.jpg, List of the to Mark and the first page of

File:Minuscule 2444 (GA) 140.jpg, The first page of

File:Minuscule 2444 (GA) 304 (303).jpg, The end of John

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