Minuscule 141


Minuscule 141, δ 408, is a Greek minuscule manuscript of the New Testament, on parchment leaves. Palaeographically it has been assigned to the 13th century. The manuscript has complex contents. It has marginalia.

Description

The codex contains the entire of the New Testament on 400 parchment leaves, they are split in two volumes. The text is written in one column per page, 26 lines per page. The leaves are arranged in quaternions, but separately numbered for each volume.
The text is divided according to the κεφαλαια, whose numbers are given at the margin, and their τιτλοι at the top of the pages.
It contains lists of the κεφαλαια before each book, lectionary equipment at the margin, αναγνωσεις at the margin, synaxaria, pictures, Menologion, subscriptions at the end of each book, with numbers of stichoi, and the Euthalian Apparatus.

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 and 20. In Luke 10 no profile was made. It belongs to subgroup 35.

History

It was examined and described by Birch, Scholz, C. R. Gregory, and Herman C. Hoskier, who collated its text only in the Apocalypse.
It is currently housed at the Vatican Library, at Rome.