Minuscule 345 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), ε 119 ( Soden), is a

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of the

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, on parchment. Paleographically it has been assigned to the 11th century. The manuscript was prepared for Church reading. It has full marginalia.

Description

The codex contains a complete text of the four

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s on 375 parchment leaves () with only some lacunae (e.g. in Matthew 1:1-10 - the ornamented heading). The text is written in two columns per page, in 15 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 smaller Ammonian Sections (in Mark 237 Sections, the last in 16:16), with references to the

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(written below Ammonian Section numbers). It contains lectionary markings at the margin (for Church reading), subscriptions at the end of each Gospel, with numbers of , numbers of , numbers of Verses, and portrait of John Evangelist (before Gospel of John). The Synaxarion and

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(lacunose) were added by a later hand.

Text

Kurt Aland did not place the Greek text of the codex in any

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. According to the

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it belongs to the textual cluster 163 in Luke 1, Luke 10, and Luke 20 (fragmentary). It creates textual pair with 163.

History

The manuscript is dated by the INTF to the 11th century. It was examined by Scholz and Burgon. It was added to the list of New Testament manuscripts by Scholz (1794-1852). C. R. Gregory saw it in 1886. The manuscript is currently housed at the

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(F. 17 sup.) in

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