Minuscule 6

Minuscule 6 is a Greek minuscule manuscript of the New Testament, written on parchment. It is designated by the siglum 6 in the Gregory-Aland numbering of New Testament manuscripts, and δ 356 in the von Soden numbering of New Testament manuscripts. Using the study of comparative writing styles, it has been dated to the 13th century. The manuscript has complex contents and full marginal notes. It was adapted for liturgical use.

Description

The manuscript is a codex, containing the entirety of the New Testament except the Book of Revelation made of 235 parchment leaves, with some gaps. It has the Catholic epistles placed before the Pauline epistles, something not done in modern bibles. The text is written in one column per page, 29-47 lines per page. It is written in elegant small letters.
The text is divided according to the chapters, whose numbers are given in the margin, and their titles at the top of the pages. The text of the Gospels is also divided according to the smaller Ammonian Sections.
It contains introductions, with the tables of contents placed before each book; it contains synaxaria, the Euthalian Apparatus, and ornamentations. At the end it has the liturgy of John Chrysostom. The subscriptions at the end of each book which contain the numbers of lines were added by a later hand.
The order of books is as follows: Gospels, Book of Acts, Catholic epistles, Pauline epistles. At the end of the Second Epistle to Timothy it has the subscription Τιμοθεον Β' απο Ρωμης, the same subscription as seen in the manuscripts Codex Porphyrianus (P), Minuscule 1739 and 1881.

The text of the Catholic epistles and Pauline epistles are considered a representative of the Alexandrian text-type, with numerous alien readings. Biblical scholar Kurt Aland placed these books from the manuscript in Category III of his New Testament manuscript classification system. Category III manuscripts are described as having "a small but not a negligible proportion of early readings, with a considerable encroachment of readings, and significant readings from other sources as yet unidentified." This text belongs to the textual Family 1739. In the Gospels and Acts it is considered a representative of the Byzantine text-type, close to the text seen in Minuscule 4. Aland placed these books from the manuscript in Category V.
According to the Claremont Profile Method, in Luke 1, Luke 10, and Luke 20 it belongs to the textual group Π6, along with Codex Petropolitanus.
; Some notable readings

The manuscript once belonged to Fontainebleau. It was used by scholar Robert Estienne in his Editio Regia, and designated by him as ε'. It was examined by biblical scholars Johann Jakob Wettstein, Johann Jakob Griesbach, and Johann M. A. Scholz, and in 1885 it was examined by biblical scholar Caspar René Gregory. It was also examined and described by scholar Paulin Martin. Wettstein gave the number 6 to it. This number is still in use.
In 27 editions of the Nestle-Aland Novum Testamentum Graece, it is cited only twice. The manuscript is currently located in the Bibliothèque nationale de France in Paris.