Minuscule 848 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), Θ^ε47 ( von Soden), is a 14th-century

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of the

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on parchment. The manuscript has no complex content.

Description

The

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contains the text of the

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on 442 parchment leaves (size ), with a catena. The text is written in one column per page, 21 lines per page. The biblical text is surrounded by a catena, the commentary is of Theophylact's authorship. It contains

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at the beginning and the tables of the (''tables of contents'') before the Gospel.

Text

The Greek text of the codex is a representative of the

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the Greek text of the codex did not place in any Category V. According to the

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it represents the textual family K^x in Luke 10 and Luke 20. In Luke 1 it has mixed text. It belongs to the textual pair with 1255.

History

F. H. A. Scrivener dated the manuscript to the 11th century,

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dated it to the 14th century. Currently the manuscript is dated by the

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to the 14th century. The manuscript once belonged to Cardinal Domenico Passionei. It was examined and described (with a facsimile) by

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.G. Bianchini, ''Evangeliarium quadruplex latinae versionis antiquae seu veteris italicae'' (Rome, 1749), vol. 2, p. 563 The manuscript was added to the list of New Testament manuscripts by Scrivener (611^e) and Gregory (848^e).

saw it in 1886. Currently the manuscript is housed at the

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(Ms. 21), in

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Minuscule 848 Greek New Testament minuscules 14th-century biblical manuscripts

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