Minuscule 31

Minuscule 31, ε 375, formerly known as Colbertinus 6063, is a Greek minuscule manuscript of the New Testament with marginalia, written on vellum and paper. Palaeographically it has been assigned to the 13th century.

Description

The codex contains a complete text of the four Gospels on 188 paper leaves. The texts of Luke 3:38-4:19; 5:39-6:33 were supplied by a later hand. The manuscript is ornamented.
The text is written in one column per page, 25 lines per page, with wide margins. The titles are in colour. The text is divided according to the κεφαλαια, whose numbers are given at the margin, and the τιτλοι at the top of the pages.
It contains tables of the κεφαλαια before Gospel of Mark, Gospel of Luke, and Gospel of John but added by a later hand, prayers, and pictures. The text of the codex was many times corrected.

Text

Kurt Aland did not place the Greek text of the codex in any Categories of [New Testament manuscripts|Category]. According to the Claremont Profile Method it represents textual family K^x in Luke 1 and Luke 20. In Luke 10 no profile was made.
It has many erasures and corrections.

History

It is dated by the INTF to the 13th century.
The manuscript was used by John Mill. It was added to the list of the New Testament manuscripts by J. J. Wettstein, who gave it the number 31. It was examined and described by Scholz and it was examined by Paulin Martin. C. R. Gregory saw the manuscript in 1885.
It is currently housed at the Bibliothèque nationale de France at Paris.