Minuscule 64 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), ε 1287 ( von Soden), formerly known as ''Ussher 2'', is a

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of the

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, on parchment leaves. 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. 50. The manuscript has complex contents and full

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Description

The codex contains a complete text of the four

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s on 443 leaves (size ). The text is written in one columns per page, 18 lines per page. The initial letters are written in gold. The text is divided according to the (''chapters''), whose numbers are given at the margin, and the (''titles of chapters'') at the top of the pages. There is also a division according to the Ammonian Sections (in Mark 241 sections, the last in 16:20), with references to the

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. It contains the

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, Eusebian Canon tables at the beginning, tables of the (''tables of contents'') before each Gospel, lectionary markings at the margin (for liturgical use), and

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. Subscriptions with numbers of Verses were added by a later hand. The Greek text of the codex is a representative of the

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. Aland did not place it in any

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. According to the

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it represents textual cluster

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in Luke 1, Luke 10, and Luke 20.

History

The manuscript once belonged to Thomas Goade († 1638), then to

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. In 1702 it was presented together with

minuscule 61 Codex Montfortianus, also known as ''Minuscule 61'', is a Greek minuscule manuscript of the New Testament written on paper. It is designated by 61 in the Gregory-Aland numbering of New Testament manuscripts, and δ 603 in the von Soden numbering ...

and 63 to

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(along with the codices 61 and 63). Then towards to the end of the 17th century it belonged to one John Jones. In 1880

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found the manuscript in the library of the Marquis of

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(Marquess of Bute, Ms. 82 G. 18/19). It was collated, like 63, by Dodwell, used by Brian Walton in his Polyglotte (as Em), used by

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(as Usser. 2).

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saw it in 1883. It is currently housed at the

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(Ms 230), at

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