Minuscule 345


Minuscule 345, ε 119, is a Greek minuscule manuscript of the New Testament, on parchment. Paleographically it has been assigned to the 11th century. The manuscript was prepared for Church reading. It has full marginalia.

Description

The codex contains a complete text of the four Gospels on 375 parchment leaves with only some lacunae. The text is written in two columns per page, in 15 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, with references to the Eusebian Canons.
It contains lectionary markings at the margin, subscriptions at the end of each Gospel, with numbers of ρηματα, numbers of Stichometry, numbers of Verses, and portrait of John Evangelist.
The Synaxarion and Menologion were added by a later hand.

Text

did not place the Greek text of the codex in any Category.
According to the Claremont Profile Method it belongs to the textual cluster 163 in Luke 1, Luke 10, and Luke 20. It creates textual pair with 163.

History

The manuscript is dated by the INTF to the 11th century.
It 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.