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== Palimpsest ==
[[File:Zacynthius Lc 3,7-8 (Mt26,39-51).jpg|thumb|The underwriting is 7th-century majuscule of Luke 3:7-8 with commentary; the upper writing is 13th-century minuscule of Matthew 26:39-51, part lection for Holy Thursday]]
The codex is a [[palimpsest]], meaning that the original text was scraped off and overwritten and the parchment leaves folded in half. The upper text was written by a minuscule hand and contains [[lectionary]] 299 ('''ℓ''' ''299'') from the 12th or 13th century,<ref name = Metzger>[[Bruce M. Metzger]], [[Bart D. Ehrman]], ''The Text of the New Testament: Its Transmission, Corruption, and Restoration'', Oxford University Press, 2005, p. 83.</ref> though the lectionary text is not complete; it is written on 176 leaves ({{×|28.7|18.2|cm}}), in one column per page, 33-36 lines per page.<ref name = INTF/> Three folios are only the lower halves of leaves, one folio was supplied with paper (folio LXVIII).<ref>{{Cite book | last = Tregelles | first = S. P. | title = Codex Zacynthius. Greek Palimpsest Fragments of the Gospel of Saint Luke | ___location = London | year = 1861 | page = XII}}</ref> The manuscript contains weekday Gospel lessons (''Evangelistarium''),<ref
| last = Gregory
| first = Caspar René
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| first = Frederick Henry Ambrose
| authorlink = Frederick Henry Ambrose Scrivener
| author2 = Edward Miller
| title = [[A Plain Introduction to the Criticism of the New Testament]]
| publisher = [[George Bell & Sons]]
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