Minuscule 716
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New Testament manuscript |
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The first page of Matthew
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| Text | Gospels |
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| Date | 14th century |
| Script | Greek |
| Now at | British Library |
| Size | 21.5 cm by 15 cm |
| Type | mixed/Byzantine |
| Category | none |
| Note | – |
Minuscule 716 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), ε448 (von Soden), is a Greek minuscule manuscript of the New Testament, on parchment. Palaeographically it has been assigned to the 14th century. The manuscript is in the British Library as MS Egerton 2784.The manuscript has complex contents.Scrivener labelled it as 565e.
The codex contains the text of the four Gospels, on 176 parchment leaves (size 21.5 cm by 15 cm).
The text is written in one column per page, 24-26 lines per page. The manuscript has ornamented headpieces, the initial letters in brown with pen-work decoration, the initial for Epsilon has anthropomorphic motif with a blessing hand. The decorations do not use colours.
The text is divided according to the κεφαλαια (chapters), whose numbers are given at the margin of the text, and their τιτλοι (titles) are given at the top of the pages. The lists of the κεφαλαια (tables of contents) are placed before each Gospel. The text is also divided according to the smaller Ammonian Sections (in Mark 242 sections), whose numbers are given at the margin, with references to the Eusebian Canons.
It contains lectionary markings margin (incipits), αναγνωσεις (lessons) at the margin, Synaxarion (fragment), subscriptions at the end of the Gospels, ρηματα, and στιχοι.
The Greek text of the codex is mixed with numerous Byzantine element. Kurt Aland did not place it in any Category.
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