Minuscule 84 (in the
Gregory-Aland numbering), ε 1219 (
Soden),
is a
Greek
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minuscule
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manuscript
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of the
New Testament
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, on parchment leaves.
Palaeographically it has been assigned to the 12th century.
[K. Aland, M. Welte, B. Köster, K. Junack, "Kurzgefasste Liste der griechischen Handschriften des Neues Testaments", '']Walter de Gruyter
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History
The roots of the company go back to 1749 when Frederick the Great granted the Königliche Realschule in Be ...
'', Berlin, New York 1994, p. 51. It was adapted for liturgical use.
Description
The
codex contains the text of the four
Gospel of Matthew
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and
Gospel of Mark with numerous
lacunae, on 66 thick parchment leaves (size ). The text is written in one column per page, 19-20 lines per page (size of text ).
The text is divided according to the (''chapters''), whose numbers are given at the margin, with the (''titles of chapters'') at the top of the pages. There is also a division according to the Ammonian Sections, (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 ...
).[
It contains lectionary markings at the margin (for liturgical use), and ''incipits'' before some lectionary pericopas.][
; Contents
Matthew 1:18-13:10; 13:27-42; 14:3-18:25; 19:9-21.33; Matthew 22:4—Mark 7:14.][
; Text
The Greek text of the codex is a representative of the ]Byzantine text-type
In the textual criticism of the New Testament, the Byzantine text-type (also called Majority Text, Traditional Text, Ecclesiastical Text, Constantinopolitan Text, Antiocheian Text, or Syrian Text) is one of the main text types. It is the form fo ...
. Aland placed it in Category V.
History
It was examined by Bengel (as August. 2), Scholz, and Burgon.[
Formerly the manuscript was held in ]Augsburg
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(as codices 83 and 85). C. R. Gregory saw it in 1887.[
It is currently housed in at the ]Bavarian State Library
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(Gr. 568), at München.[
]
See also
* List of New Testament minuscules
The list of New Testament Minuscules ordered by Gregory-Aland index number is divided into three sections:
* List of New Testament minuscules (1–1000)
* List of New Testament minuscules (1001–2000)
* List of New Testament minuscules (2001– ...
* Biblical manuscript
* Textual criticism
Textual criticism is a branch of textual scholarship, philology, and of literary criticism that is concerned with the identification of textual variants, or different versions, of either manuscripts or of printed books. Such texts may range in da ...
* Codex Monacensis
References
Further reading
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Greek New Testament minuscules
12th-century biblical manuscripts