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Minuscule 671 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), ε 1283 ( von Soden),
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, ''Die Schriften des neuen Testaments, in ihrer ältesten erreichbaren Textgestalt / hergestellt auf Grund ihrer Textgeschichte'' (Berlin 1902), vol. 1, p. 167
is a
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of the
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, on parchment. Palaeographically it has been assigned to the 12th century. The manuscript is very lacunose.Handschriftenliste
at the Münster Institute
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labelled it by 544e.


Description

The codex contains the text of the four
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s, on 104 parchment leaves (size ), arranged in quarto, with numerous lacunae. The text is written in one column per page, 18-20 lines per page. It was written by several hands. The tables of the are placed before every Gospel. The text is divided according to the (''chapters''), which numbers are given at the left margin, and their (''titles'') at the top of the pages. There is also a division with a references to the
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(partially). There is no heading to the
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, but a blank space is left, so that perhaps the manuscript was never finished. The manuscript has a large number of unfoliated leaves.


Text

The Greek text of the codex is still not determined.
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did not examine it by using his method of 1000 readings, and he did not place it in any
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. It was also not examined by using the
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. According to Gregory it contains some
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readings. Its text is probably mixed.


History

Scrivener dated the manuscript to the 13th century, Gregory dated it to the 12th or 13th century. Currently the manuscript is dated by the
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to the 12th century. The manuscript was brought from Greece to Britain by the
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. Formerly it belonged to the Ashburnham (204). It was added to the list of New Testament manuscripts by Scrivener and Gregory. Gregory saw it in 1883. Currently the manuscript is held in a private collection. Officially its owner is unknown.


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 ...
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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 0671 Greek New Testament minuscules 12th-century biblical manuscripts George Hamilton-Gordon, 4th Earl of Aberdeen