Minuscule 95 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), A²¹² ( von Soden), is a

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of the

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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", ''

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'', Berlin, New York 1994, p. 49. It has marginalia.

Description

The codex contains the text of the

Gospel of Luke The Gospel of Luke), or simply Luke (which is also its most common form of abbreviation). tells of the origins, birth, ministry, death, resurrection, and ascension of Jesus Christ. Together with the Acts of the Apostles, it makes up a two-volu ...

(11:2-24:53);

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1:1-7:1; 7:18-20:30; 21:11-25 on 110 leaves (size ) with a commentary. The text is written in one column per page, 20 lines per page. The initial letters are written in red. The text is divided according to the (''chapters''), whose numbers of at the margin. There is also a division according to the Ammonian Sections (later hand), (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 full

scholia Scholia (singular scholium or scholion, from grc, σχόλιον, "comment, interpretation") are grammatical, critical, or explanatory comments – original or copied from prior commentaries – which are inserted in the margin of th ...

neatly written on the margin, synaxaria, and

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Text

The Greek text of the codex is a representative of the

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. Aland placed it in Category V. It was not examined by the

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. It contains the

Pericope Adulterae Jesus and the woman taken in adultery (or the ) is a passage (pericope) found in John 7:53– 8:11 of the New Testament. It has been the subject of much scholarly discussion. In the passage, Jesus was teaching in the Second Temple after com ...

(John 7:53-8:11) but with questionable scholion on the margin: . In John 8:8 it has textual variant (''sins of every one of them''), as in

Codex Nanianus Uncial 030, designated by siglum U or 030 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), ε 90 ( von Soden), is a Greek uncial manuscript of the New Testament on parchment, dated palaeographically to the 9th century. The manuscript has complex contents, wit ...

, 73,

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, 413,

Minuscule 700 Minuscule 700 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering of New Testament manuscripts), ε 133 (in the von Soden numbering of New Testament manuscripts), is a Greek New Testament minuscule manuscript of the Gospels, written on parchment. It was formerly ...

, and some other manuscripts.

History

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brought the manuscript from

Constantinople la, Constantinopolis ota, قسطنطينيه , alternate_name = Byzantion (earlier Greek name), Nova Roma ("New Rome"), Miklagard/Miklagarth (Old Norse), Tsargrad ( Slavic), Qustantiniya (Arabic), Basileuousa ("Queen of Cities"), Megalopolis (" ...

to England in 1676 (together with the codex 68 and ℓ ''3''). It was examined by

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(as Wheeleri 2), and Nicoll (John 5-7 for Scholz). C. R. Gregory saw it in 1883. It is owned by

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, on deposit with the

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as Lincoln College MS. Gr. 16.

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