Codex Daltonianus, known as ''Minuscule 1423'' (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), designated by A¹¹⁹ (in the Soden numbering), is a Greek

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of the

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, written on a paper. Palaeographically it had been assigned to the 14th century (or about 1200).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. 147.

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The codex contains the complete text of the four

Gospel 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 a ...

s on 352 paper leaves (29.0 by 21.8 cm), with marginal commentaries (approx. 47 lines). The text is written in one column per page, in 21 and more lines per page. Titles of are written in semi-uncials. The headings are ornamented. It contains Prolegomena, tables of (''tables of contents'') before each Gospel, (''chapters'') at the margin, and commentaries.

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did not place it in any

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. It was not examined by the

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described it in 1902. It was added to the list of the New Testament manuscripts by C. R. Gregory. The codex now is located in the Kenneth Willis Clark Collection of the Duke University (Gk MS 60) at Durham.

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The Kenneth Willis Clark Collection of Greek Manuscripts

Codex Daltonianus at the Kenneth Willis Clark Collection of Greek Manuscripts
{{DEFAULTSORT:Daltonianus, Codex Greek New Testament minuscules 14th-century biblical manuscripts Duke University Libraries

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