Minuscule 175 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), δ 95 ( Soden), is a

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of the

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, on parchment. Palaeographically it has been assigned to the 12th century.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. 57. It has

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Description

The codex contains almost complete text of the

on 247 parchment leaves (size ), with only one lacuna (Matthew 1:1-4:17). The text is written in one column per page, in 35–37 lines per page (size of text 16.9 by 10.5 cm), in brown ink. The

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is placed between

Acts of the Apostles The Acts of the Apostles (, ''Práxeis Apostólōn''; ) is the fifth book of the New Testament; it tells of the founding of the Christian Church and the spread of The gospel, its message to the Roman Empire. Acts and the Gospel of Luke make u ...

and

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(see Minuscule 627). The

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follow Catholic epistles. It contains

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to the Acts, some marginal corrections made by ''prima manu'' (e.g. Luke 24:13). The Pauline epistles have the Euthalian subscriptions. It has margin notes in uncial script to the Acts of Apostles.

Text

According to

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in the Acts and epistles the text of the manuscript is a representative of the

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did not place it in any

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. According to the

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it represents textual family Π^a in Luke 1, Luke 10, and Luke 20.

History

This codex, together with 173, 174, 176, and 177, was brought from the Library of the Basilian monks. It was examined by Bianchini,

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(about 1782), and Scholz.

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saw the manuscript in 1886. It is currently housed at the

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(Vat. gr. 2080), at

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Minuscule 175
at the ''Encyclopedia of Textual Criticism'' {{DEFAULTSORT:Minuscule 0175 Greek New Testament minuscules 11th-century biblical manuscripts Manuscripts in the Vatican Library

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