Minuscule 114


Minuscule 114, ε 1018, is a Greek minuscule manuscript of the New Testament, on parchment leaves. Palaeographically it has been assigned to the 11th century. It has marginalia.

Description

The codex contains the text of the four Gospels on 280 parchment leaves. It has some lacunae in Matthew 17:4-18; 26:59-73, Matthew 28:19-Mark 1:12 added by a later hand.
The headpieces are decorated with gold and silver. It has itacistic errors.
The text is written in one column per page, in 20 lines per page. It is written by very elegant hand, with more recent marginal notes. 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, but there is no references to the Eusebian Canons.
It contains the Epistula ad Carpianum, tables of the κεφαλαια before Luke and John.
The Menologion was added in the 13th century. It has itacistic errors.

Text

classified it to the textual family Π. Kurt Aland the Greek text of the codex did not place in any Category.
According to the Claremont Profile Method it represents textual family Πa in Luke 1, Luke 10, and Luke 20.

History

In 1617 it belonged to Nicolaus Faber, Dominican. It was examined by Griesbach, Bloomfield. The text of the codex was published in 1837 by Taylor. C. R. Gregory saw it in 1883. The manuscript was rebound in 1967.
It is currently housed at the British Library.