Minuscule 720
Minuscule 720, Θε20, is a Greek minuscule manuscript of the New Testament, on paper. It is dated by a colophon to the year 1138 or 1139. The manuscript has complex contents. Scrivener labelled it as 825e.Description
The codex contains the text of the New Testament except Book of Acts and Apocalypse, on 296 paper leaves.
The text is written in one column per page, 56 lines per page.
It contains a Theophylact's commentary to the Gospels.
The order of books is unusual: Mark, John, Matthew, the Catholic epistles, Luke, and the Pauline epistles. Epistle to the Hebrews is placed after Philemon, Romans and 1-2 Corinthians after Hebrews.Text
The Greek text of the codex is mixed. Kurt Aland placed it in Category III.
It was not examined by using Claremont Profile Method.History
According to the colophon it was written in 1138 or 1139, by Leo, a monk.
The manuscript once belonged to John Sambucky.
It was added to the list of New Testament manuscripts by Scrivener and Gregory. Gregory saw the manuscript in 1887.
At present the manuscript is housed at the Austrian National Library in Vienna.
