Text Gospels Script Greek Type Byzantine text-type | Date 11th century Size 34 cm by 26.5 cm | |
Now at Bibliothèque nationale de France | ||
Minuscule 301 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), A156 (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 a complete text of the four Gospels on 221 parchment leaves (34 cm by 26.5 cm) with a commentary. The text is written in one column per page, the biblical text in 22 lines per page, the text of a commentary in 48 lines per page.
It contains tables of the κεφαλαια (tables of contents) before each Gospel, a division according to the Ammonian Sections, subscriptions at the end of each Gospel, and numbers of στιχοι. It lacks references to the Eusebian Canons.
Biblical text is surrounded by a catena. In the Gospel of Mark, the commentary is of Victorinus's authorship.
Text
The Greek text of the codex is a representative of the Byzantine text-type. Aland placed it in Category V. According to the Claremont Profile Method it belongs to the textual family Kx and creates textual pair with Minuscule 373 in Luke 1, Luke 10, and Luke 20.
The Pericope Adulterae (John 7:53-8:11) is placed at the end of John.
History
The manuscript once belonged to Jean Hurault de Boistaillé (like codices 10, 203, 263, 306, 314).
The manuscript was added to the list of New Testament manuscripts by Scholz (1794-1852). It was examined and described by Scholz, Paulin Martin, and C. R. Gregory.
The manuscript is currently housed at the Bibliothèque nationale de France (Suppl. Gr. 187) at Paris.