Minuscule 574 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), ε 1295 (in the Soden numbering), is a

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of the

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, on parchment. Palaeographically it has been assigned to the 13th century. The manuscript is lacunose.

Description

The codex contains the 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 215 parchment leaves (size ) with lacunae (John 10:1-11:38; 11:39-57; 12:25-13:1; 15:26-16:15). The writing is in one column per page, 27 lines per page. It contains tables of the before each Gospel and portraits of the four Evangelists.

Text

The Greek text of the codex is a representative of the

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Hermann von Soden Baron Hermann von Soden (16 August 1852 – 15 January 1914) was a German Biblical scholar, minister, professor of divinity, and textual theorist. Life Born in Cincinnati, Ohio, on August 16, 1852, Soden was educated at the University of Tübinge ...

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

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it represents K^x in Luke 10 (cluster with codex

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), in Luke 20 it creates cluster with the code 585, in Luke 1 it has mixed text.

History

The manuscript came from Karahissar. Muralt's catalogue says no more than "Karahissar", which is

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. The problem may be impossible to resolve. It can only be noted that

Afyonkarahisar Afyonkarahisar (, 'poppy, opium', ''kara'' 'black', ''hisar'' 'fortress') is a major city in western Turkey. It is the administrative centre of Afyonkarahisar Province and Afyonkarahisar District. Its population is 251,799 (2021). Afyon is in the ...

is nowadays the most populous of the places, and the closest to Constantinople, where Titoff was stationed; and that

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formerly had a sizable

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- likely

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- population. Titoff, Russian envoy in Turkey, purchased this manuscript and presented it to the Imperial Library in Petersburg. The manuscripts was examined, described, and collated by

Eduard de Muralt Eduard de Muralt ( Bischofszell 1808–1895) was a Swiss-German professor of theology, librarian, and palaeographer. Born in Bischofszell, as son of Kaspar, a dealer, and of Elizabeth Sprüngli. Studies of theology in Zurich (finished in 1832), t ...

(along with the codices

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566 566 ( DLXVI) was a common year starting on Friday of the Julian calendar. The denomination 566 for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years. ...

, 568-

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, 575, and

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). The manuscript was also examined by

Kurt Treu Kurt Treu (15 September 1928 in Karja, Saare County, Estonia – 6 June 1991 in Vienna, Austria), was a German classical philologist. He was born the son of a German parson on the island Saaremaa, the largest island of Estonia. In 1940, because of ...

. Currently the manuscript is housed at the

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(Gr. 105) in

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