Minuscule 214 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), ε 1401 (Soden), is a Greek minuscule manuscript of the New Testament, on paper. Paleographically it has been assigned to the 14th century.K. Aland, M. Welte, B. Köster, K. Junack, "Kurzgefasste Liste der griechischen Handschriften des Neues Testaments", Walter de Gruyter, Berlin, New York 1994, p. 60. It has marginalia.
Description
The codex contains a complete text of the four Gospels, on 227 paper leaves (size ). The text is written in one column per page, 27 lines per page.
The text is divided according to the (chapters), whose numbers are given at the margin. There is no (titles) at the top of the pages. There is also a division according to the Ammonian Sections (no references to the Eusebian Canons).
It contains prolegomena, tables of the (tables of contents), before each Gospel, (lessons), lectionary markings at the margin for liturgical reading, synaxaria, Menologion, and subscriptions at the end of each Gospel (with numbers of verses).
Text
The Greek text of the codex is a representative of the Byzantine text-type. Hermann von Soden classified it to the textual family Kr. Aland placed it in Category V.
According to the Claremont Profile Method it belongs to the textual family Kr in Luke 1. In Luke 10 and Luke 20 it belongs to Kx.
History
It was examined by Birch and Burgon. C. R. Gregory saw it in 1886.
It is currently housed at the Biblioteca Marciana (Gr. Z 543), at Venice.
See also List of New Testament minuscules Biblical manuscript Textual criticism
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