Minuscule 266 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), ε 1393 (Soden), is a Greek minuscule manuscript of the New Testament, on parchment. Palaeographically it has been assigned to the 13th century. The manuscript has complex contents. It has full marginalia.
Description The codex contains the text of the four Gospels on 282 parchment leaves (). The text is written in one column per page, in 23 lines per page.
The text is divided according to numbers of the (chapters) at the margin, and their (titles of chapters) at the top of the pages. There is also a division according to the smaller Ammonian Sections (in Mark 237 sections, the last section in 16:15), but there is no references to the Eusebian Canons.
It contains tables of the (tables of contents) before each Gospel, lectionary markings at the margin (for liturgical use), synaxaria, Menologion, and subscriptions at the end of each Gospel.
Text The Greek text of the codex is a representative of the Byzantine text-type. Hermann von Soden suggested that it is related to the textual families Πa and Πb. Aland placed it in Category V. According to the Claremont Profile Method it represents the textual family Π266 in Luke 1 and Luke 20 (close to 593). In Luke 10 no profile was made.
History The manuscripts was added to the list of New Testament manuscripts by Scholz (1794-1852). It was examined and described by Paulin Martin.Jean-Pierre-Paul Martin, Description technique des manuscrits grecs, relatif au Nouveau Testament, conservé dans les bibliothèques des Paris (Paris 1883), p. 57 C. R. Gregory saw the manuscript in 1885.
The manuscript is currently housed at the Bibliothèque nationale de France (Gr. 67) at Paris.
See also
List of New Testament minuscules Biblical manuscript Textual criticism
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