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manuscript. The text, written on

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, is a version of the

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. The manuscript contains 39 parchment folios with the text of the four

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s, Acts of the Apostles, and

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.Bruce M. Metzger, ''The Early Versions of the New Testament'', Oxford University Press, 1977, p. 297.

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text. Verse Matthew 12:47 is omitted as in codices

Codex Sinaiticus The Codex Sinaiticus ( Shelfmark: London, British Library, Add MS 43725), designated by siglum [Aleph] or 01 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering of New Testament manuscripts), δ 2 (in the von Soden numbering of New Testament manuscripts ...

, Vaticanus,

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, 1009,

Lectionary 12 Lectionary 12, designated by siglum ℓ ''12'' (in the Gregory-Aland numbering). It is a Greek manuscript of the New Testament, on vellum leaves. K. Aland, M. Welte, B. Köster, K. Junack, ''Kurzgefasste Liste der griechischen Handschriften des ...

, k, syr^c, syr^s, cop^sa. In Matthew 16:12 it has textual variant της ζυμης των αρτων των Φαρισαιων και Σαδδουκαιων (''leaven of bread of the Pharisees and Sadducee's'') supported only by

and

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The manuscript formerly belonged to the monastic Library of

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, on the Somme, near

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; and with the most important part of that Library was transferred to the

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at Paris, about the year 1638, and was there numbered 21. The St. Germain Library was suffered severely during the

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, and Peter Dubrowsky, Secretary to the Russian Embassy at Paris acquired some of manuscripts stolen from the public libraries.About the Library of Corbey see: Leopold Delisle, "Recherches sur I'ancienne bibliotheque de Corbie", Memoires de l'academie des inscriptions et belles-lettres, Paris, Bd. 24, Teil 1 (1861), S. 266-342. See also

It was transferred to the Imperial Library at. St. Petersburg about 1800-1805. It was edited by J. Martianay in 1695 (''Vulgata antiqua Latina et versio Evangelii secundum Matthaeum'', Paris 1695),

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, Bianchini, Belsheim,

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, Migne, and Jülicher. Currently it is housed at the

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(Ov. 3, D. 326) at

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