Minuscule 144


Minuscule 144, ε 1001, is a Greek minuscule manuscript of the New Testament, on parchment leaves. Palaeographically it has been assigned to the 10th-century. It has full marginalia.

Description

The codex contains the text of the four Gospels on 268 parchment leaves with some lacunae. The text is written in one column per page, 19-23 lines per page. The initial letters are beautifully written. Texts with Matthew 1:1-11:11 and John 14:1-21:25 were lost.
It has some additional matter at the end from Maximus and his Chronology from the 14th-century.
The text is divided according to the κεφαλαια, whose numbers are given at the margin, with their τιτλοι at the top of the pages. There is also a division according to the Ammonian Sections. It has no a references to the Eusebian Canons.
It contains the Eusebian Canon tables in uncial letters, and lectionary equipment at the margin.

Text

The Greek text of the codex is a representative of the Byzantine text-type. Hermann von Soden classified it to the textual family Kx. Aland placed it in Category V.
According to the Claremont Profile Method it belongs to the textual family Kx in Luke 1, Luke 10, and Luke 20.

History

dated it to the 11th-century. C. R. Gregory hesitated in that case.
It was examined by Birch, Scholz. Gregory saw it in 1886.
It is currently housed at the Vatican Library, at Rome.