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Minuscule 849 (Gregory Aland)

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Text
  
Gospel of John

Script
  
Greek

Size
  
27.5 cm by 20.5 cm

Date
  
17th century

Now at
  
Vatican Library

Type
  
mixed text-type / Alexandrian

Minuscule 849 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), Κι60 (von Soden), is a 17th-century Greek minuscule manuscript of the New Testament on paper. The manuscript has no complex context.

Contents

Description

The codex contains the text of the Gospel of John (7:25-10:18) on 152 paper leaves (size 27.5 cm by 20.5 cm), 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 Cyril's authorship.

Text

The Greek text of the codex is a mixture of the text-types. Kurt Aland the Greek text of the codex placed in Category III.

History

F. H. A. Scrivener and C. R. Gregory dated the manuscript to the 17th century. Currently the manuscript is dated by the INTF to the 17th century.

Probably it was rewritten from minuscule 850 (12th century).

The manuscript was added to the list of New Testament manuscripts by Scrivener (730e) and Gregory (849e). Gregory saw it in 1886.

Currently the manuscript is housed at the Vatican Library (Barb. gr. 495), in Rome.

References

Minuscule 849 (Gregory-Aland) Wikipedia