Minuscule 260


Minuscule 260, ε 369, is a Greek minuscule manuscript of the New Testament, on parchment. Palaeographically it has been assigned to the 13th century. It has marginalia.

Description

The codex contains the text of the four Gospels on 241 parchment leaves. The text is written in one column per page, in 24 lines per page.
The text is divided according to the κεφαλαια, whose numbers are given at the margin, with the 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 Prolegomena, tables of the κεφαλαια before each Gospel, and pictures.
According to Scrivener the manuscript is correctly written.

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 textual family Kx in Luke 1 and Luke 20.

History

The manuscript once belonged to "domini du Fresne". It was examined and described by Scholz and Paulin Martin. C. R. Gregory saw the manuscript in 1884.
The manuscript is currently housed at the Bibliothèque nationale de France at Paris.