Minuscule 133


Minuscule 133, ε 304, is a Greek minuscule manuscript of the New Testament, on parchment leaves. Palaeographically it has been assigned to the 11th century. It has marginalia.

Description

The codex contains the text of the New Testament except Book of Revelation, on 232 parchment leaves. The text is written in one column per page, 29 lines per page, in black ink.
The text is divided according to the κεφαλαια, whose numbers are given at the margin, and their τιτλοι at the top of the pages. The text of the Gospels is also divided according another to the smaller Ammonian Sections. It has no references to the Eusebian Canons.
It contains prolegomena of Cosmas, tables of the κεφαλαια before each book, lectionary markings at the margin, subscriptions at the end of each sacred book, synaxaria, Menologion, pictures, and Euthalian prologues.
The order of books: Gospels, Acts, Catholic epistles, and Pauline epistles.

Text

The Greek text of the codex is a representative of the Byzantine text-type. Hermann von Soden classified it to the textual family Kx. Aland placed it in Category V.
According to the Claremont Profile Method it belongs to the textual group Π473.

History

The manuscript was examined by Birch about 1782. C. R. Gregory saw it in 1886.
It is currently housed at the Vatican Library, at Rome.