Minuscule 872 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), ε 203 ( von Soden), is a 12th-century

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of the

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on parchment. The manuscript has no complex context. It has full marginalia.

Description

The codex contains the text of the four

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s with some lacunae (Matthew 6:4-21; John 13:16-21:25) on 180 parchment leaves (size ). The text is written in two columns per page, 26 lines per page. 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 a division according to the Ammonian Sections (in Mark 233 Sections, the last in 16:8), with references to the

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. It contains the

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, Prolegomena to John, tables of (''tables of contents'') before each Gospel, lectionary markings at the margin (for liturgical reading); subscriptions at the end of each Gospel, with numbers of and numbers of verses (in John); it contains portraits of the Evangelists placed before each Gospel.

Text

The Greek text of the codex is an eclectic. Hermann von Soden classified it to the textual family I^ηb. Kurt Aland did not place it in any

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. According to the

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it represents the textual family K^x in Luke 1, Luke 10, and Luke 20. In the Gospel of Mark it represents the textual family ''f''¹.Minuscule 372
at the ''Encyclopedia of Textual Criticism''

History

F. H. A. Scrivener Frederick Henry Ambrose Scrivener (September 29, 1813, Bermondsey, Surrey – October 30, 1891, Hendon, Middlesex) was a New Testament textual critic and a member of the English New Testament Revision Committee which produced the Revised Version ...

dated the manuscript to the 11th or 12th century, C. R. Gregory dated it to the 12th century. Currently the manuscript is dated by the INTF to the 12th century. According to the note the manuscript once belonged to Emilio H. F. Alteri in Rome in 1871. The manuscript was added to the list of New Testament manuscripts by Scrivener (690^e), Gregory (872^e). Gregory saw it in 1886. Currently the manuscript is housed at the

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(Gr. 2160), in

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NTVMR {{DEFAULTSORT:Minuscule 872 Greek New Testament minuscules 12th-century biblical manuscripts Manuscripts of the Vatican Library

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