Minuscule 344


Minuscule 344, ε 1007, is a Greek minuscule manuscript of the New Testament, on parchment. Paleographically it has been assigned to the 10th century.
It has marginalia.

Description

The codex contains the text of the four Gospels on 327 parchment leaves with lacunae. The lacking texts were supplied in the 16th century on paper. It is written in one column per page, in 19 lines per page.
The text is divided according to the κεφαλαια, whose numbers are given at the margin, with their τιτλοι at the top. There is also a division according to the Ammonian Sections, without references to the Eusebian Canons.
It contains the Epistula ad Carpianum, tables of the κεφαλαια before each Gospel, Synaxarion, and subscriptions at the end of each Gospel.

Text

The Greek text of the codex is a representative of the Byzantine text-type. Aland placed it in Category V.
According to the Claremont Profile Method it represents the textual family Kx in Luke 1 and Luke 20, and belongs to the textual cluster Ω. In Luke 10 no profile was made.
It does not contain the text of and John 21:25.

History

The manuscript was examined by Scholz and Burgon. It was added to the list of New Testament manuscripts by Scholz.
C. R. Gregory saw it in 1886.
The manuscript is currently housed at the Biblioteca Ambrosiana in Milan.