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Minuscule 869 (Gregory Aland)

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Text
  
Gospel of John †

Script
  
Greek

Size
  
28 cm by 22 cm

Date
  
12th century

Now at
  
Vatican Library

Type
  
Byzantine text-type

Minuscule 869 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), Cι21 (von Soden), is a 12th-century Greek minuscule manuscript of the New Testament on paper, with a commentary. The manuscript has no complex context.

Contents

Description

The codex contains the text of the Gospel of John (6:20-11:57) on 245 paper leaves (size 28 cm by 22 cm), with one lacuna. The text is written in one column per page, 25 lines per page. The biblical text is surrounded by a catena.

The text is divided according to the κεφαλαια (chapters), whose numbers are given at the margin, and the τιτλοι (titles of chapters) at the top of the pages.

Text

Kurt Aland did not place the Greek text of the codex in any Category.

History

F. H. A. Scrivener dated the manuscript to the 11th or 12th century, C. R. Gregory dated it to the 12th century. Currently the manuscript is dated by the INTF to the 17th century.

The manuscript was added to the list of New Testament manuscripts by Scrivener (684e) and Gregory (869e). Gregory saw it in 1886.

Currently the manuscript is housed at the Vatican Library (Gr. 1996), in Rome.

References

Minuscule 869 (Gregory-Aland) Wikipedia