Minuscule 60 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), ε 1321 ( Von Soden), is a

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of the

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, on parchment leaves. It is dated by a colophon to the year 1297.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. 49 It has complex contents, marginalia are incomplete.

Description

The codex contains complete text of the four Gospels and Revelation on 291 leaves (size ). The text is written elegantly in one column per page, 24-26 lines per page. The text is divided according to (''chapters''), whose numbers are given at the margin, and their (''titles of chapters'') at the top of the pages. The text is also divided into the Ammonian Sections, but curiously no references to the

Eusebian Canons Eusebian canons, Eusebian sections or Eusebian apparatus, also known as Ammonian sections, are the system of dividing the four Gospels used between late Antiquity and the Middle Ages. The divisions into chapters and verses used in modern texts d ...

on a margin of the text. It contains the

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, the Eusebian Tables, tables of the (''tables of contents'') before each Gospel, subscriptions at the end of each Gospel, and pictures. It has a few

scholia Scholia (singular scholium or scholion, from grc, σχόλιον, "comment, interpretation") are grammatical, critical, or explanatory comments – original or copied from prior commentaries – which are inserted in the margin of t ...

from Arethas. Together with the codex 2821 it belongs to the same manuscript. Folios 4-294 belong to the codex 60, folios 295-316 – to the codex 2821.

Text

The Greek text of the codex is a representative of the

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. Hermann von Soden classified it to the textual family K^x. Kurt Aland placed it in Category V. According to the

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it represents textual cluster

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, and it is closely related to K^x.

History

Micheal ο μαντυλιδης wrote this manuscript for Georg τον μουγδουφον. The manuscript once belonged to Bishop Moore (along with

minuscule 440 Minuscule 440 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), δ 260 (in the Soden numbering), is a Greek minuscule manuscript of the New Testament, on parchment. Palaeographically it has been assigned to the 12th century. The marginal equipment is almos ...

), after his death in 1714 to King George I, who gave it to the

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. It was examined by John Mill (as Moori 1), Richard Bentley (as o'), and

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. C. R. Gregory saw it in 1886. It is currently housed in at the

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(Dd. 9.69, fol. 4–294), at

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