Minuscule 269


Minuscule 269, ε 290, is a Greek minuscule manuscript of the New Testament, on parchment. Palaeographically it has been assigned to the 12th century. It has marginalia.

Description

The codex contains the text of the four Gospels on 215 parchment leaves, with lacunae. Text of Luke 24:50-53 was supplied by a later hand. The text is written in two columns per page, in 25 lines per page.
The text is divided according to the κεφαλαια, whose numbers are given at the margin, and their τιτλοι at the top of the pages. There is also a division according to the smaller Ammonian Sections.
It contains Prolegomena to the Gospel of John, tables of the κεφαλαια before each Gospel, Verses, and pictures. The Eusebian Canon tables were added by a later hand.

Text

The Greek text of the codex is a representative of the Byzantine text-type. According to Hermann von Soden it represents the Byzantine commentated text. Kurt Aland placed it in Category V.
According to the Claremont Profile Method it belongs to the 1519 group. It creates a textual pair with Minuscule 32.

History

The manuscript once belonged to the King Henry IV. The manuscripts was added to the list of New Testament manuscripts by Scholz.
It was examined by Burgon. C. R. Gregory saw the manuscript in 1885.
The manuscript is currently housed at the Bibliothèque nationale de France at Paris.