Minuscule 27


Minuscule 27, ε 1023. It is a Greek minuscule manuscript of the New Testament, written on vellum. Palaeographically it has been assigned to the 10th-century. It has liturgical books and marginalia.

Description

The codex contains a complete text of the four Gospels, on 460 leaves, though from John 18:3 the text is supplied. The text is written in one column per page, 19 lines per page. It is ornamented in gold and silver.
The text is divided according to the κεφαλαια, whose numerals are given at the margin, the τιτλοι at the top of the pages. There is also a division according to the Ammonian Sections, with references to the Eusebian Canons.
It contains the tables of the κεφαλαια before each Gospel, pictures. Liturgical books with hagiographies were added by a later hand.
It was extensively altered by a later hand.

Text

The Greek text of the codex is a representative of the Byzantine text-type. Kurt Aland placed it in Category V. It belongs to the textual Family 1424.
According to the Claremont Profile Method it represents textual cluster M27. It creates cluster, to which belong the manuscripts: 71, 569, 692, 750, 1170, 1222, 1413, 1415, 1458, 1626, 2715.
In, it has an interesting reading that agrees with 45 in omitting καὶ τῆς γῆς/and earth, a reading reported by Tertullian and Epiphanius as being that in Marcion's edit of Luke's Gospel. A corrector has later inserted καὶ τῆς γῆς in the right hand margin as a correction.

History

The codex is dated by the INTF to the 11th-century.
The first collation was prepared by Larroque, but it was very imperfect.
The codex was examined and described by John Mill, Wettstein, Scholz, and Paulin Martin. C. R. Gregory saw the manuscript in 1885.
The codex is currently housed at the Bibliothèque nationale de France at Paris.