Minuscule 324


Minuscule 324, ε 452, is a Greek minuscule manuscript of the New Testament, on parchment. Paleographically it has been assigned to the 14th century.
The margin apparatus is full. The manuscript was prepared for Church reading.

Description

The codex contains the text of the four Gospels on 170 parchment leaves. The text is written in one column per page, in 29 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 another division according to the Ammonian Sections, with references to the Eusebian Canons.
It contains the Epistula ad Carpianum, tables of the κεφαλαια before each Gospel, lectionary markings at the margin for liturgical reading, and incipits. Synaxarion, Menologion, and list of Caesars were added by a later hand.
To the same manuscript belongs lectionary 97.

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 represents Kx in Luke 1, Luke 10, and Luke 20.

History

The manuscript formerly belonged to Cardinal Mazarin.
It was added to the list of New Testament manuscripts by Scholz.
It was examined and described by Scholz, Paulin Martin. C. R. Gregory saw the manuscript in 1885.
The manuscript is currently housed at the Bibliothèque nationale de France at Paris.