Minuscule 899 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering) is a

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of the

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, on parchment. Palaeographically it has been assigned to the 11th century.

Description

The codex contains the text of the

Gospels Gospel originally meant the Christian message (" the gospel"), but in the second century AD the term (, from which the English word originated as a calque) came to be used also for the books in which the message was reported. In this sen ...

on 208 parchment leaves (). It is written in one column of 25-26 lines per page. The headpiece of Luke is missing, there is a

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at John 16:5-17:8, and John 21:17-25 is supplemented in another hand. The text of the Gospels 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 a division according to the smaller Ammonian Sections (in Mark 241 sections, the last section in 16:20), whose numbers are given at the margin, with references to the

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(written below Ammonian Section numbers). It contains decorated Eusebian canon tables and illustrations of the evangelists. It references the Jewish Gospel in a scholion at Matthew 12:40. It contains the

Jerusalem Colophon The Jerusalem Colophon is a colophon found in a number of New Testament manuscripts, including Λ (039), 20, 153, 157, 164, 215, 262, 300, 376, 428, 565, 566, 686, 718, 728, 748, 829, 899, 901, 922, 980, 1032, 1071, 1118, 1121 ...

after each of the gospels.

Text

The Greek text of the codex is representative of the

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, except in John. In the Pericope de Adultera, it does not contain the Apollinarius scholion. According to the

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, it is a core member of the group Lambda. The Greek text of this codex is mixed. Aland did not place it in any

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History

The codex is dated by the

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to the 11th century. The codex was bought at Venice (along with Minuscule 441) by

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in 1678. The manuscript was added to the list of New Testament manuscripts by

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(899^e). It is currently housed at the

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(Gr. 4) in

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Minuscule 0899 Greek New Testament minuscules 11th-century biblical manuscripts

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