Minuscule 70
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New Testament manuscript |
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| Text | Gospels |
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| Date | 15th century |
| Script | Greek |
| Now at | Cambridge University Library |
| Size | 28.5 cm by 17.7 cm |
| Type | Byzantine text-type |
| Category | V |
| Note | close to minuscules 17, 30 |
Minuscule 70 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), ε 521 (von Soden), is a Greek minuscule manuscript of the New Testament, on parchment leaves. Palaeographically it has been assigned to the 15th century. The manuscript has complex contents. Marginalia are incomplete.
The codex contains complete text of the four Gospels on 186 leaves (size 28.5 cm by 17.7 cm). The text is written in one column per page, 23 lines per page. The large initial letters in gold and colour.
The text is divided according to the κεφαλαια (chapters), whose numbers are given at the margin, in Latin like minuscule 62. It contains the τιτλοι (titles of chapters) at the top of the pages and there are some marginal corrections made by Budaeus and some by Hermonymus.
The Greek text of the codex is a representative of the Byzantine text-type. Aland placed it in Category V.
According to the Claremont Profile Method it represents the textual family Kx in Luke 1 and Luke 20. In Luke 10 no profile was made. It belongs to the textual cluster 17.
In Matthew 1:11 it has additional reading τον Ιωακιμ, Ιωακιμ δε εγεννησεν (of Joakim, and Joakim was the father of). The reading is supported by Codex Campianus, Koridethi, manuscripts of the textual family f1, Minuscule 17, 33, 71, and 120; the reading was cited by Griesbach in his Novum Testamentum Graece.
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