Minuscule 748 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), ε1203 ( von Soden),

Hermann von Soden Baron Hermann von Soden (16 August 1852 – 15 January 1914) was a German Biblical scholar, minister, professor of divinity, and textual theorist. Life Born in Cincinnati, Ohio, on August 16, 1852, Soden was educated at the University of Tübinge ...

, ''Die Schriften des neuen Testaments, in ihrer ältesten erreichbaren Textgestalt / hergestellt auf Grund ihrer Textgeschichte'' (Berlin 1902), vol. 1, p. 161. is a Greek

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manuscript of the New Testament written on parchment. Palaeographically it has been assigned to the 12th century. The manuscript has no complex contents.Handschriftenliste
at the Münster Institute Scrivener labelled it as 758^e.

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The

codex The codex (plural codices ) was the historical ancestor of the modern book. Instead of being composed of sheets of paper, it used sheets of vellum, papyrus, or other materials. The term ''codex'' is often used for ancient manuscript books, with ...

contains a complete text of the four Gospels on 278 parchment leaves (size ), with numerous lacunae. The leaves are arranged in octavo (eight leaves in quire). The text is written in one column per page, 19 lines per page. ; Contents Matthew 7:25-8:28; 12:36-13:8; 13:38-28:20; Mark 1:1-6:1; 6:10-7:22; 7:23-16:20; Luke 1:1-3:18; 3:34-8:53; 9:9-16:11; 16:21-23:49; 24:6-53; John 1:1-15:6; 16:19-18:18; 18:38-19:29. The text is divided according to the (''chapters''), whose numbers are given at the margin, and their (''titles'') at the top. There is also another division according to the smaller Ammonian Sections (in Mark 237 sections, last numbered sections ends in 16:15), without references to the Eusebian Canons. It contains tables of the (''tables of contents'') before each Gospel, lectionary markings at the margin, incipits, and subscriptions at the end of the Gospels.

Text

The Greek text of the codex is a representative of the Byzantine text-type. Aland placed it in Category V.

classified it to the textual family I^r. According to the Claremont Profile Method it belongs to the textual cluster

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History

Scrivener and Gregory dated the manuscript to the 12th century. The manuscript is currently dated by the

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to the 12th century. It was added to the list of New Testament manuscripts by Scrivener (758) and Gregory (748). Gregory saw the manuscript in 1885. The manuscript is now housed at the

Bibliothèque nationale de France The Bibliothèque nationale de France (, 'National Library of France'; BnF) is the national library of France, located in Paris on two main sites known respectively as ''Richelieu'' and ''François-Mitterrand''. It is the national repository ...

(Suppl. Gr. 903) in Paris.

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