Minuscule 136


Minuscule 136, Zε 31, is a Greek minuscule manuscript of the New Testament, on cotton paper leaves. Palaeographically it has been assigned to the 13th century.

Description

The codex contains the text of the Gospel of Matthew and Gospel of Mark on 235 cotton paper leaves, with a commentary of Euthymius Zigabenus. It has a lacuna at the end.
It contains lacuna at the end of the Gospel of Mark 15:1-16:20. The text is written in one column per page, 32 lines per page.

Text

The Greek text of the codex is a representative of the Byzantine text-type. Aland placed it in Category V.

History

It is dated by the INTF to the 13th century.
The manuscript was examined by Birch in Gospel of Matthew about 1782. C. R. Gregory saw the manuscript in 1886.
It is currently housed at the Vatican Library, at Rome.