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Minuscule 67 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), ε 150 ( von Soden), known as ''Codex Galei Londinensis'', is a
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of the
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, on
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leaves. Palaeographically it has been assigned to the 10th century. The manuscript is lacunose.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.
Some leaves of the codex were lost. It has full
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Description

The
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contains the text of the four
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s on 202 leaves (size ) with only one but large
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(John 6:65-21:25). The text is written in two columns per page, 20 lines per page. The initial letters written in gold and colour. 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 (Matthew 355; Mark 235 – 16:12; Luke 342), with references to the
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. It contains the Eusebian tables, tables of the (''tables of contents'') before every Gospel, lectionary markings at the margin (for liturgical use), and subscriptions at the end of each Gospel. It contains the Athanasian symbol on folio 3 recto.
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the Greek text of the codex did not place in any
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. According to the
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it represents textual family Kx in Luke 10. It has mixed text in Luke 1. In Luke 20 it has a mixture of Byzantine families.


History

The manuscript is dated on the palaeographical ground to the 10th century.
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(† 1701), brought the manuscript from the East (along with
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(as Hunt. 2).
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saw it in 1883. It is currently housed at the
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(MS. Auct. E. 5. 11), at
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See also

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List of New Testament minuscules The list of New_Testament_minuscule, New Testament Minuscules ordered by Gregory–Aland index number is divided into three sections: * List of New Testament minuscules (1–1000) * List of New Testament minuscules (1001–2000) * List of New Test ...
*
Biblical manuscript A biblical manuscript is any handwritten copy of a portion of the text of the Bible. Biblical manuscripts vary in size from tiny scrolls containing individual verses of the Jewish scriptures (see '' Tefillin'') to huge polyglot codices (multi- ...
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Textual criticism Textual criticism is a branch of textual scholarship, philology, and literary criticism that is concerned with the identification of textual variants, or different versions, of either manuscripts (mss) or of printed books. Such texts may rang ...


References


Further reading

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Minuscule 0067 Greek New Testament minuscules 10th-century biblical manuscripts Bodleian Library collection