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Text
  
Gospels

Script
  
Greek

Size
  
21.8 cm by 16.6 cm

Date
  
12th century

Now at
  
Vatican Library

Type
  
Byzantine text-type

Minuscule 387 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), ε 205 (Soden), is a Greek minuscule manuscript of the New Testament, on parchment. Paleographically it has been assigned to the 12th century. It has marginalia.

Contents

Description

The codex contains a complete text of the four Gospels on 298 parchment leaves (21.8 cm by 16.6 cm). The text is written in one column per page, in 21 lines per page.

It contains Prolegomena, lectionary markings at the margin (for Church reading), subscriptions at the end of each Gospel, with numbers of stichoi.

Text

The Greek text of the codex is a representative of the Byzantine text-type. Hermann von Soden classified it to the textual family Kr. Aland placed it in Category V. According to the Claremont Profile Method it belongs to the textual family Kr in Luke 1 and Luke 20. In Luke 10 no profile was made. It creates textual pair with 1471.

History

The manuscript was added to the list of New Testament manuscripts by Scholz (1794–1852). It was examined and described by Giuseppe Cozza-Luzi. C. R. Gregory saw it in 1886.

The manuscript is currently housed at the Vatican Library (Ottob. gr. 204) in Rome.

References

Minuscule 387 Wikipedia