Minuscule 282 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), ε 280 ( Soden), is a

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of the

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, on parchment. It is dated by a colophon to the year 1176. It has full

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Description

The codex contains the text of the four

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s on 150 parchment leaves (). The text is written in two columns per page, in 33-34 lines per page. 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. There is also another division according to the smaller Ammonian Sections (in Mark 235 Sections, the last in 16:12) was added by a later hand, but without references to the

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(written below Ammonian Section numbers). It contains the Eusebian Canon tables, lectionary markings at the margin for liturgical use, and subscriptions at the end of each Gospel.

Text

The Greek text of the codex is a representative of the

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classified it to the textual family K^x. Aland placed it in Category V. According to the

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it represents textual family K^x in Luke 10 and Luke 20. In Luke 1 it has a mixture of the Byzantine text-families and creates pair with 1714.

History

The manuscript was added to the list of New Testament manuscripts by

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(1794-1852). It was examined and described by

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and

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, ''Fac-similés des manuscrits grecs datés de la Bibliothèque Nationale du IXe et XIVe siècle'' (Paris, 1891), 49.

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saw it in 1885. The manuscript is currently housed at the

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(Gr. 90) at

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