Minuscule 4

Minuscule 4 is a Greek minuscule manuscript of the New Testament, written on vellum. It is designated by the siglum 4 in the Gregory-Aland numbering of New Testament manuscripts, and ε 371 in the von Soden numbering of New Testament manuscripts. Using the study of comparative writing styles, it has been dated to the 13th century. It was formerly named Codex Regius 84.
It has a full collection of marginal marks. It was adapted for liturgical use.

Description

The manuscript is a codex, containing an almost complete text of the four Gospels with four gaps, consisting of 212 parchment leaves. The text is written in one column per page, 26-28 lines per page.
The text is divided according to the chapters, whose numbers are given in the margin, with the titles of chapters at the top of the pages. There is also another division according to the smaller Ammonian Sections. The codex has 27 sections in Mark. There are also references to the Eusebian Canons.
It contains the Letter to Carpian, tables of contents are placed before each Gospel, lectionary markings in the margin, incipits, synaxaria, Menologion, subscriptions at the end of each Gospel, numbers of Stichometry, and extracts from some Church Fathers. The Pericope Adulterae is marked with an obelus.

The Greek text of this codex is considered to be a mixture of text-types. According to biblical scholar Constantin von Tischendorf, its text is mixed but with a strong Byzantine element.
Biblical scholar Kurt Aland did not place it in any Category within his categories of New Testament manuscripts. Textually it is close to the codex 273.
According to the Claremont Profile Method, it represents K in Luke 10 and Luke 20. In Luke 1 it has mixed Byzantine text.
In it has the textual variant ὁ δεύτερος instead of ὁ πρῶτος, ὁ ὕστερος, or ὁ ἔσχατος. This reading is supported by Minuscule 273 and lectionary ℓ 547.

The manuscript was used by biblical scholar Desiderius Erasmus in his edition of Novum Testamentum, and by Robert Estienne in his Editio Regia, who designated it as γ'. Biblical scholar John Mill noticed its affinity to the Latin versions and the Complutensian Polyglot.
It was examined by Scholz and Paulin Martin. Biblical scholar Caspar René Gregory saw the manuscript in 1885.
The codex is located now at the Bibliothèque nationale de France in Paris.