Minuscule 825 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), ε308 ( von Soden), is a 13th-century Greek

minuscule Letter case is the distinction between the letters that are in larger uppercase or capitals (or more formally ''majuscule'') and smaller lowercase (or more formally ''minuscule'') in the written representation of certain languages. The writing ...

manuscript of the New Testament on parchment.

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The

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contains the text of the four Gospels, on 337 parchment leaves (size ). The text is written in one column per page, 21 lines per page. It contains Argumentum, tables of the (''chapters'') before each Gospel, lectionary markings for liturgical use, incipits, (''lessons''), liturgical books:

Synaxarion Synaxarion or Synexarion (plurals Synaxaria, Synexaria; el, Συναξάριον, from συνάγειν, ''synagein'', "to bring together"; cf. etymology of ''synaxis'' and ''synagogue''; Latin: ''Synaxarium'', ''Synexarium''; cop, ⲥⲩⲛⲁ ...

and

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, subscriptions at the end each of the Gospels, and pictures. According to Scrivener it is a beautiful codex.

Text

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

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 ...

classified it to the textual family K^x. Aland placed it in Category V. According to the Claremont Profile Method it represents textual family K^r in Luke 1, Luke 10, and Luke 20. It is a weak member of the cluster

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. The text of the Pericope Adulterae (John 7:53-8:11) is marked by an obelus.

History

C. R. Gregory C. or c. may refer to: * Century, sometimes abbreviated as ''c.'' or ''C.'', a period of 100 years * Cent (currency), abbreviated ''c.'' or ''¢'', a monetary unit that equals of the basic unit of many currencies * Caius or Gaius, abbreviated as ...

dated the manuscript to the 13th century, other palaeographers dated it to the 11th century. Currently the manuscript is dated by the

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to the 13th century. The manuscript was brought from

Corfu Corfu (, ) or Kerkyra ( el, Κέρκυρα, Kérkyra, , ; ; la, Corcyra.) is a Greek island in the Ionian Sea, of the Ionian Islands, and, including its small satellite islands, forms the margin of the northwestern frontier of Greece. The isl ...

by Joseph Schirus, a monk, in 1729, and presented by him to the library in Grottaferrata. It was examined and described by Antonio Rocci in 1882.Antonio Rocci, ''Codices cryptenses, seu Abbatiae Cryptae Ferratae in Tusculano digesti et illustrati'' (Tusculanum 1883), pp. 2–4. It was added to the list of New Testament manuscripts by Scrivener (623) and Gregory (825^e). Gregory saw it in 1886. Currently the manuscript is housed at the Biblioteca della Badia (A' α. 2), in Grottaferrata.

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