Minuscule 76 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), δ 298 ( von Soden), known as ''Codex Caesar-Vindobonensis'', is a

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of the

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, on parchment leaves. Palaeographically it has been assigned to the 14th 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. 51. Formerly it was assigned by 49^p. It has complex contents, and full marginalia. It was adapted for liturgical use

Description

The codex contains entire of the

except its last book, the

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, on 358 leaves (size ). The text is written in one column per page, 27 lines per page. The initial letters in red, main text in black ink. The margins are wide, size of the text is . 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 another division according to the Ammonian Sections (in Mark 234 sections – 16:9), without references to the

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. It contains prolegomena, tables of the (''tables of contents'') before each book, lectionary markings at the margin (for liturgical use), incipits, liturgical books with hagiographies ( synaxaria and

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), and pictures (John the Evangelist with

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). The order of books is usual for the Greek manuscripts: Gospels, Acts, Catholic epistles, and Pauline epistles.

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. Aland placed it in Category V. According to the

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it represents K^x in Luke 10. In Luke 1 and Luke 20 it has mixed Byzantine text. The manuscript is sometimes erroneously cited as the only known Greek copy to read in Luke 2:22 αὐτῆς with the

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. However, according to Caspar Rene Gregory who personally viewed the manuscript it actually reads αὐτῶν and not αὐτῆς. No Greek manuscripts of the NT read αὐτῆς in Luke 2:22, they either read αὐτῶν, αὑτον or αὐτου. The form αὐτῆς in the Complutensian Polyglot and the critical editions of Beza and Elzevir is wholly derived from the Latin ''eius'' (which could be either masculine or feminine). Its inclusion in the King James Bible is simply another example where a reading not found in any Greek manuscript was adopted via the Latin Vulgate's influence on Beza's critical editions.

History

Possibly it was used by editors of the Complutensian Polyglot. In 1690 Gerhard von Mastricht examined it for John Mill. In 1711 Mill used it in his edition of ''Novum Testamentum'', and "erroneously" called it an uncial. It was used by Alter in his edition of the Greek New Testament in 1786.Karl Alter, ''Novum Testamentum Graecum, ad Codicem Vindobonensem Graece expressum: Varietam Lectionis addidit Franciscus Carolus Alter'', 1 vol. 8vo, Vienna, 1786. C. R. Gregory saw it in 1887. It is currently housed at the

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(Theol. gr. 300), at

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