Minuscule 128 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), ε 304 ( Soden), is a Greek

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of the

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, on parchment leaves. Palaeographically it has been assigned to the 13th century.K. Aland, M. Welte, B. Köster, K. Junack, "Kurzgefasste Liste der griechischen Handschriften des Neues Testaments", '' Walter de Gruyter'', Berlin, New York 1994, p. 54. It has

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Description

The codex contains a complete text of the four

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s on 370 parchment leaves (size ). The text is written in one column per page, 18 lines per page. Parchment is white, ink is brown, the initial letters in red. The handwriting is like that in minuscule 80. 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. It contains prolegomena, Argumentum, tables of the (''tables of contents'') before each Gospel with a harmony, subscriptions at the end of each Gospel, and numbers of . There is room for pictures.

Text

The Greek text of the codex is a representative of the Byzantine text-type. Hermann von Soden classified it to the textual family K^r. Aland placed it in Category V. According to the

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it belongs to the textual family K^r in Luke 1, Luke 10, and Luke 20. It creates textual cluster 128. The text of the Pericope Adulterae (John 7:53-8:11) is marked as a doubtful.

History

The manuscript was examined by Birch (about 1782), who dated it to the 11th century. Gregory saw it in 1886. It is currently housed at the

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(Vat. gr. 356), at

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