Minuscule 899 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering) is a Greek

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of the

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, on parchment. Palaeographically it has been assigned to the 11th century.

Description

The codex contains the text of the

Gospels Gospel originally meant the Christian message ("the gospel"), but in the 2nd century it came to be used also for the books in which the message was set out. In this sense a gospel can be defined as a loose-knit, episodic narrative of the words an ...

on 208 parchment leaves (). It is written in one column of 25-26 lines per page. The headpiece of Luke is missing, there is a

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at John 16:5-17:8, and John 21:17-25 is supplemented in another hand. The text of the Gospels 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 smaller Ammonian Sections (in Mark 241 sections, the last section in 16:20), whose numbers are given at the margin, with references to the Eusebian Canons (written below Ammonian Section numbers). It contains decorated Eusebian canon tables and illustrations of the evangelists. It references the Jewish Gospel in a scholion at Matthew 12:40. It contains the Jerusalem Colophon after each of the gospels.

Text

The Greek text of the codex is representative of the Byzantine text-type, except in John. In the Pericope de Adultera, it does not contain the Apollinarius scholion. According to the

Claremont Profile Method The Claremont Profile Method is a method for classifying ancient manuscripts of the Bible. It was elaborated by Ernest Cadman Colwell and his students. Professor Frederik Wisse attempted to establish an accurate and rapid procedure for the classif ...

, it is a core member of the group Lambda. The Greek text of this codex is mixed. Aland did not place it in any Category.

History

The codex is dated by the

INTF The Institute for New Testament Textual Research (german: Institut für neutestamentliche Textforschung — INTF) at the University of Münster, Westphalia, Germany, is to research the textual history of the New Testament and to reconstruct its G ...

to the 11th century. The codex was bought at Venice (along with

Minuscule 441 Minuscule 441 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), O18 (in the Soden numbering), is a Greek minuscule manuscript of the New Testament, on parchment. Palaeographically it has been assigned to the 13th century. Its former designations were 68a and 7 ...

) by

Johan Gabriel Sparwenfeld Johan Gabriel Sparwenfeld ( lat, links=no, Ioannes Gabriel Sparvenfeldius; (17 July, 1655 – 2 June, 1727) was a 17th-century Swedish diplomat, linguist, polyglot and diarist. Biography Johan Gabriel Sparwenfeld was born to Johan Sparwenfeld (1 ...

in 1678. The manuscript was added to the list of New Testament manuscripts by Gregory (899^e). It is currently housed at the University of Uppsala (Gr. 4) in

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Minuscule 0899 Greek New Testament minuscules 11th-century biblical manuscripts

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