Minuscule 570 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), ε 1220 (in the Soden numbering), is a

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of the

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, on parchment. Palaeographically it has been assigned to the 12th century. The manuscript is lacunose. It was labelled by Scrivener as 479.

Description

The codex contains a complete text of the four

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s on 194 parchment leaves (size ) with some lacunae (Matthew 1:1-16; John 16:20-21:25). The writing is in one column per page, 24 lines per page. It contains Prolegomena of Kosmas.

Text

The Greek text of the codex is a representative of the

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. Aland placed it in Category V. According to the

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it represents the textual family K^x in Luke 1, Luke 10, and Luke 20.

History

The manuscript was brought by Tischendorf from the East. The manuscripts was examined and described by

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(along with the codices

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572 __NOTOC__ Year 572 ( DLXXII) was a leap year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. The denomination 572 for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era be ...

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, 575, and

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), then by

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. Currently the manuscript is housed at the

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(Gr. 97) in

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