Minuscule 267


Minuscule 267, ε 1289, is a Greek minuscule manuscript of the New Testament, on parchment. Paleographically it has been assigned to the 12th century. It has marginalia.

Description

The codex contains the text of the four Gospels on 396 parchment leaves, with lacunae. The text is written in one column per page, in 20 lines per page.
The text is divided according to the Ammonian Sections, whose numbers are given at the margin. There are also references to the Eusebian Canons.
It contains Prolegomena, tables of the κεφαλαια before each Gospel, lectionary markings at the margin, incipits, αναγνωσεις, subscriptions at the end of each Gospel, and numbers of Stichometry.

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 creates textual cluster along with the manuscripts 7, 1651, and 1654. The cluster stands close to the textual family Kx.
It belongs to the textual family 1424.

History

The manuscript once belonged to Arsenikos, a monk. In 1605 it was presented to Nicodemus. The manuscripts was added to the list of New Testament manuscripts by Scholz.
It was examined and described by Paulin Martin. C. R. Gregory saw the manuscript in 1885.
The manuscript is currently housed at the Bibliothèque nationale de France at Paris.