Minuscule 8
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New Testament manuscript |
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| Text | Gospels |
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| Date | 11th century |
| Script | Greek |
| Now at | National Library of France |
| Size | 28.7 cm by 21.8 cm |
| Type | Byzantine text-type |
| Category | V |
| Hand | beautifully written |
| Note | full marginalia |
Minuscule 8 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), ε 164 (von Soden), is a Greek minuscule manuscript of the New Testament on parchment. It is dated palaeographically to the 11th century. The manuscript has complex contents. It has complex contents and full marginalia.
The codex contains the complete text of the four Gospels, on 199 parchment leaves (28.7 cm by 21.8 cm). The text is written in two columns per page, 22 lines per page. The initial letters in red.
The text is divided according to the κεφαλαια (chapters), whose numbers are given at the margin, with the τιτλοι (titles of chapters) at the top of the pages. There is also a division according to the Ammonian Sections, with references to the Eusebian Canons.
It contains the Epistula ad Carpianum, the Eusebian Canon tables, prolegomena, pictures, lectionary markings at the margin (for liturgical use), Menologion, and Synaxarion. The passages of John 5:3.4 and the Pericope Adulterae (John 7:53-8:11) are marked with an obelus.
The Greek text of the codex is a representative of the Byzantine text-type. Hermann von Soden classified it to the textual family Family Kx.Aland placed it in Category V.
According to the Claremont Profile Method it represents Kx in Luke 1, Luke 10, and Luke 20.
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