Minuscule 287


Minuscule 287, ε 523, is a Greek minuscule manuscript of the New Testament, on paper. It is dated by a colophon to the year 1478.
It has marginalia.

Description

The codex contains the text of the four Gospels on 322 paper leaves. The text is written in one column per page, in 18-19 lines per page.
The text is divided according to the κεφαλαια, whose numbers are given at the margin, and the τιτλοι at the top of the pages. There is also a division according to the Ammonian Sections, but without references to the Eusebian Canons.
It contains pictures.

Text

The Greek text of the codex is a representative of the Byzantine text-type. Aland placed it in Category V.
According to Claremont Profile Method it represents textual family Kx in Luke 1 and Luke 20. In Luke 10 no profile was made. It belongs to the textual cluster 17 along with manuscripts 17, 30, 70, 120, 288, and 880.

History

The manuscript was written by George Hermonymus for David Chambellan. The manuscript was added to the list of New Testament manuscripts by Scholz.
It was examined and described by Dean Burgon and Paulin Martin. C. R. Gregory saw it in 1884.
The manuscript is currently housed at the Bibliothèque nationale de France at Paris.