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Minuscule 859 (Gregory Aland)

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Text
  
Gospel of Luke †

Script
  
Greek

Size
  
22 cm by 14.5 cm

Date
  
16th century

Now at
  
Vatican Library

Type
  
Byzantine text-type

Minuscule 859 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), Νλ50 (von Soden), is a 16th-century Greek minuscule manuscript of the New Testament on parchment. The manuscript has not survived in complex context.

Contents

Description

The codex contains the text of the Gospel of Luke 12:32-24:53 on 261 parchment leaves (size 22 cm by 14.5 cm). The text is written in one column per page, 25 lines per page. According to F. H. A. Scrivener and C. R. Gregory it was written on paper, but according to Aland on parchment. It contains a commentary.

Text

Kurt Aland did not place the Greek text of the codex in any Category. It was not examined by the Claremont Profile Method.

History

Scrivener dated the manuscript to the 15th century, Gregory dated it to the 16th century. Currently the manuscript is dated by the INTF to the 16th century.

The manuscript was added to the list of New Testament manuscripts by Scrivener (672e) and Gregory (859e). Gregory saw it in 1886.

Currently the manuscript is housed at the Vatican Library (Gr. 759), in Rome.

References

Minuscule 859 (Gregory-Aland) Wikipedia