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Text
  
Gospels

Script
  
Greek

Size
  
19.5 cm by 14.5 cm

Date
  
13th century

Now at
  
Duke University

Type
  
Byzantine text-type

Minuscule 2612 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), is a Greek minuscule manuscript of the New Testament, on 184 parchment leaves (19.5 cm by 14.5 cm). Dated paleographically to the 13th century.

Contents

Description

The codex contains text of the four Gospels. The text is written in one column per page, in 21-28 lines per page.

The codex contains the text of the four Gospels, in the order: Mark, Luke, John, and Matthew.

Text

The Greek text of the codex, is a representative of the Byzantine text-type. Aland did not place it in any Category. According to the Claremont Profile Method it represents the textual family Kx in Luke 10 and Luke 20. In Luke 10 the manuscript is defective.

History

The codex now is located in the Kenneth Willis Clark Collection of the Duke University (Gk MS 5) at Durham.

References

Minuscule 2612 Wikipedia