Minuscule 390


Minuscule 390, δ 366, is a Greek minuscule manuscript of the New Testament, on parchment. It is dated by a colophon to the year 1281 or 1282.
It has marginalia.

Description

The codex contains the text of the New Testament except Book of Revelation on 336 parchment leaves. The text is written in one column per page, in 21 lines per page.
The text is divided according to the κεφαλαια, whose numbers are given at the margin, with their τιτλοι at the top of the pages. The text of the four Gospels has also a division according to the smaller Ammonian Sections, with references to the Eusebian Canons.
It contains the Epistula ad Carpianum, Eusebian Canon tables, prolegomena, tables of the κεφαλαια before each sacred book, lectionary markings at the margin, incipits, Synaxarion, Menologion, subscriptions at the end of each book, and Euthalian Apparatus to the Pauline epistles. It has scholia.
The order of books: Gospels, Acts, Pauline epistles, and Catholic epistles.

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 belongs to the textual family Kx in Luke 1 and Luke 20, and belongs to the textual cluster 74. In Luke 10 no profile was made.

History

In 1359 the manuscript was on island Scio. The manuscript together with 386, 388, and 389 belonged to Giovanni Angelo Herzog von Altaemps.
The manuscript was added to the list of New Testament manuscripts by Scholz.
It was examined and described by Giuseppe Cozza-Luzi.
C. R. Gregory saw it in 1886.
The manuscript is currently housed at the Vatican Library in Rome.