Minuscule 12 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), A¹³⁷ ( Von Soden), is a Greek

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of the

New Testament The New Testament (NT) is the second division of the Christian biblical canon. It discusses the teachings and person of Jesus in Christianity, Jesus, as well as events relating to Christianity in the 1st century, first-century Christianit ...

, on parchment, dated palaeographically to the 14th-century.

Description

The codex contains a complete text of the four

Gospel Gospel originally meant the Christianity, Christian message ("the gospel"), but in the second century Anno domino, AD the term (, from which the English word originated as a calque) came to be used also for the books in which the message w ...

s, on 294 parchment leaves (), with a commentaries. The text is written in one column per page, biblical text in 21 lines and text of commentary in 57 lines per page. The ink is brown. A commentary to Matthew and John is of Chrysostom's authorship, to Mark of Victors, and to Luke of

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. The text is divided according to the (''chapters'') whose numbers are given at the margin, and their (''titles'') at the top of the pages. There is also another division according to the smaller Ammonian Sections, with 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 of the Bible, chapters ...

. It contains the

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, Eusebian Canon tables, prolegomena, tables of the (''tables of contents'') before each Gospel, liturgical books with hagiographies (

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and

Synaxarium Synaxarion or Synexarion (plurals Synaxaria, Synexaria; , from συνάγειν, ''synagein'', "to bring together"; cf. etymology of '' synaxis'' and ''synagogue''; Latin: ''Synaxarium'', ''Synexarium''; ; Ge'ez: ሲናክሳሪየም(ስንክ� ...

), and subscriptions at the end of each Gospel.

Text

The Greek text of the codex is a representative of the

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, with a few alien readings. Aland placed it in Category V. It was not examined by using the

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. The text of the Pericope Adulterae (John 7:53-8:11) is omitted. The text of Mark 16:9-20 has a note of Victor's.

History

It is dated by the

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to the 14th-century. It was added to the list of the New Testament manuscripts by

Johann Jakob Wettstein Johann Jakob Wettstein (also Wetstein; 5 March 1693 – 23 March 1754) was a Swiss theologian, best known as a New Testament critic. Biography Youth and study Johann Jakob Wettstein was born in Basel. Among his tutors in theology was Samuel We ...

, who gave it the number 12. It was examined and described by

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, Griesbach, and

Paulin Martin Jean-Pierre-Paulin MartinSometimes referred to as Jean P.P. Martin. (20 July 1840 at Lacam-d'Ourcet, Lot – 14 January 1890 at Amélie-les-Bains, Pyrénées-Orientales), often referred to as Abbé Paulin Martin, or simply Abbé Martin or ...

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saw the manuscript in 1885. The codex is located at the

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(Gr. 230) in

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Minuscule 0012 Greek New Testament minuscules 14th-century biblical manuscripts Bibliothèque nationale de France collections

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