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of the

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, on parchment. It has been dated by a colophon to the year 1275.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. 61. It has

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Description

The codex contains a complete text of the four

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s on 261 parchment leaves (size ). The text is written in one column per page, 26 lines per page. It contains tables of the (''tables of contents'') before each Gospel (on paper), references to the

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, and lectionary markings at the margin for liturgical use. The

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was added by a later hand.

Text

The Greek text of the codex is a representative of the

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. Aland placed it in Category V. It is close to the codex 71. According to the

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it has a mixture of the Byzantine text-families in Luke 1 and Luke 10. In Luke 20 it represents cluster M27.

History

The manuscript was written by Meletius a Beroean for Cyrus Alypius, οικονομος of St. George's monastery. in the reign of Michael Palaeologus (1259-1282). Formerly the manuscript was held at the Philotheus monastery at Athos peninsula. It was brought to Moscow, by the monk Arsenius, on the suggestion of the

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, in the reign of Alexei Mikhailovich Romanov (1645-1676). The manuscript was collated by C. F. Matthaei. The manuscript is currently housed at the

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(V. 18, S. 277) at

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