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This manuscript was written in Constantinople (modern Istanbul) in the middle of the tenth century, when the Byzantine empire was at the height of its glory and power. The manuscript contains the New Testament in Greek (without the book of Revelation). This page, from the beginning of Luke’s Gospel, shows Luke writing into a book at a desk: he is provided with a variety of writing implements, a footstool, and a hanging lamp. Another picture of Luke, this time inscribing on a scroll, appears at the start of the Acts of the Apostles, which he is also thought to have written.
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