Text Matthew, Mark, Luke Script Greek Type Byzantine text-type | Date 11th century Size 33 cm by 23 cm | |
Now at Bibliothèque nationale de France | ||
Minuscule 300 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), A141 (Soden), is a Greek minuscule manuscript of the New Testament, on parchment. Palaeographically it has been assigned to the 11th century. It has marginalia.
Contents
Description
The codex contains the text of the Gospel of Matthew, Gospel of Mark, Gospel of Luke on 328 parchment leaves (33 cm by 23 cm), with a commentary. The text is written in one column per page, in 27-28 lines per page.
The text is divided according to the κεφαλαια (chapters), whose numbers are given at the left margin, and their τιτλοι (titles of chapters) at the top of the pages. There is also another division according to the smaller Ammonian Sections (in Mark 237), with references to the Eusebian Canons (written below Ammonian Section numbers).
It contains the Eusebian tables, tables of the κεφαλαια (tables of contents) before each Gospel, Synaxarion, Menologion, and subscriptions at the end of each Gospel. The biblical text is surrounded by a catena. On a margin were added, by a later hand, commentaries of Chrysostom's on Matthew, Victor's on Mark, and Titus of Bostra on Luke. Subscriptions to the first three Gospels are the same like that in codex 262. It has the famous Jerusalem Colophon.
Text
The Greek text of the codex is a representative of the Byzantine text-type. Aland placed it in Category V. It is close to the codex 20.
It was not examined by the Claremont Profile Method.
History
The manuscript was added to the list of New Testament manuscripts by Scholz (1794-1852). It was collated by Scholz. It was examined and described by John Anthony Cramer, Paulin Martin, and W. F. Rose.
Formerly it was held in Fontainebleau.
The manuscript is currently housed at the Bibliothèque nationale de France (Suppl. Gr. 186) at Paris.