New Testament manuscript |
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Text | Gospels † |
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Date | 12th century |
Script | Greek |
Now at | Biblioteca della Badia |
Size | 23 cm by 17.5 cm |
Type | Byzantine text-type |
Category | none |
Note | — |
Minuscule 829 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), ε220 (von Soden), is a 12th-century Greek minuscule manuscript of the New Testament on parchment.
The codex contains the text of the four Gospels, on 222 parchment leaves (size 23 cm by 17.5 cm). It lacks text of Matthew 1:1-13:28. The text is written in two columns per page, 26 lines per page. It is ornamented.
The text is divided according to the κεφαλαια (chapters), and according to the smaller Ammonian Sections (in Mark 236 sections, the last numbered section in 16:12). The numbers of the κεφαλαια are given at the left margin, and their τιτλοι (titles) at the top of the pages. The numbers of the Ammonian Sections are given with a references to the Eusebian Canons (written under Ammonian Sections) at the margin.
It contains liturgical books with hagiographies: Synaxarion and Menologion, the tables of the κεφαλαια (table of contents) before each Gospel, lectionary markings at the margin for liturgical use, subscriptions at the end of each of the Gospels, and stichoi. It has so called Jerusalem Colophon at the end Gospel of Mark.
The Greek text of the codex is a representative of the Byzantine text-type. Hermann von Soden classified it to the textual family Iβ.Kurt Aland did not place it in any Category. According to Gregory it could be related to the textual family f13.