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Minuscule 197
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Minuscule 197 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), A132 (Soden),[1] is a Greek minuscule manuscript of the New Testament, on parchment. Palaeographically it has been assigned to the 11th century.[2] The manuscript is lacunose. It has marginalia.
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Description
The codex contains the text of the Gospel of Matthew 24:3-28:20, Gospel of Mark and Epistle of James 2:10-4:15, with a commentary, on 154 parchment leaves (size 30.1 cm by 23.8 cm).[2][3] The text is written in one column per page, in 23 lines per page, in brown ink, the capital letters in red.[3]
The text is divided according to the κεφαλαια (chapters), whose numbers are given at the margin, and the τιτλοι (titles) at the top of the pages. There is also a division according to the Ammonian Sections, with references to the Eusebian Canons (written below Ammonian Section numbers).[3]
It contains prolegomena, tables of the κεφαλαια (tables of contents) before each Gospel, a commentary to Matthew is of Chrysostom's authorship, commentary to Mark is of Victor's authorship.[3][4]
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Text
The Greek text of the codex is a representative of the Byzantine text-type. Aland placed it in Category V.[5]
History
The manuscript was examined by Bandini, Birch, Scholz, and Burgon. C. R. Gregory saw it in 1886.[3]
It is currently housed at the Laurentian Library (Plutei. VIII. 14), at Florence.[2]
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