Description
The codex contains a part of the Gospel of Luke (1:1-2:40), with a commentary on 14 parchment leaves (27.5 cm by 23 cm). It is written in three columns per page, 42 lines per page. Parchment is thick, ink is brown, it has breathings and accents.
The text of the commentary is written in minuscule hand.
It is one of the very few codices written in three columns per page (other codices: Codex Vaticanus, Codex Vaticanus 2061, 460).
The Greek text of this codex is a representative of the Byzantine text-type. Aland placed it with some hesitation in Category V. According to the Claremont Profile Method it represents textual family Kx in Luke 1.
Currently it is dated by the INTF to the 9th century.
The codex now is located in Munich in the Bavarian State Library (Gr. 208, fol. 235-248).
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