Minuscule 412


Minuscule 412, ε 419, is a Greek minuscule manuscript of the New Testament, on parchment. It is dated by a colophon to the year 1301.
It has marginalia.

Description

The codex contains a complete text of the four Gospels on 329 parchment leaves. The text is written in one column per page, in 22 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 Ammonian Sections, with references to the Eusebian Canons.
It contains the Epistula ad Carpianum, Eusebian Canon tables, Prolegomena, tables of the κεφαλαια before each Gospel, Synaxarion, Menologion, and numbers of Stichometry.
John 1:1-14 was supplied by a later hand.

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 textual family Kx in Luke 1, Luke 10, and Luke 20. It belongs also to the cluster 1394.
According to Gregory its text is similar to the manuscripts 483 and 484.

History

The manuscript was written by Theodoros Hagiopetrites, a scribe. Wiedmann and J. G. J. Braun collated some portions of the manuscript for Scholz. The manuscript 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 Marciana in Venice.