Minuscule 125


Minuscule 125, ε 1028. It is a Greek minuscule manuscript of the New Testament on a parchment. Palaeographically it has been assigned to the 11th century. The manuscript has survived in complete condition. It has with full marginalia.

Description

The manuscript contains the text of the four Gospels on 306 parchment leaves. The text is written in one column per page, 23 lines per page. The capital letters are written in colour.
The text is divided according to the κεφαλαια, whose numbers are given at the margin of the text, and their τιτλοι at the top of the pages. There is also another division according to the smaller Ammonian Sections, with references to the Eusebian Canons.
It contains prolegomena of Cosmas, tables of the κεφαλαια before each Gospel, lectionary markings at the margin, and pictures. Subscriptions with numbers of Stichometry and numbers of verses were added at the end of each Gospel by a later hand. It has many corrections in the margin and between the lines.

Text

The Greek text of the codex is a representative of the Byzantine text-type. Aland placed it to Category V.
According to the Claremont Profile Method it represents the textual family Kx in Luke 1 and Luke 20. In Luke 10 no profile was made.

History

It was examined by Treschow, Alter, and Birch. Alter used it in his edition of the Greek text of the New Testament. C. R. Gregory saw it in 1887.
Currently the codex is located at the Austrian National Library at Vienna.