Minuscule 7
Minuscule 7, ε 287, is a Greek minuscule manuscript of the New Testament, written on parchment. Using the study of comparative writings styles, it has been assigned to the 12th century.
Description
The manuscript is a codex, containing the complete text of the four Gospels on 186 parchment leaves. The text is written in one column per page, 29 lines per page. The capital letters are written in colour, the initial letters are written in red.The text is divided according to the chapters, whose numbers are given at the margin, with the chapter titles at the top of the pages. There is also a division according to the smaller Ammonian Sections, with references to the Eusebian Canons.
It contains Gospel introductions, a synaxaria, and lectionary markings in the margin.
Text
According to biblical scholar and textual critic Constantin von Tischendorf, the text of the manuscript is considered a representative of the Byzantine text-type, but with some Alexandrian readings.Kurt Aland did not place it in any Category.
According to the Claremont Profile Method it textual cluster along with the manuscripts 267, 1651, and 1654. The cluster stands close to the textual family K.
It belongs to the textual Family 1424.
History
The manuscript was examined by biblical scholars Johann Jakob Wettstein and Johann M. A. Scholz. Scholz examined only Mark 1-6 and John 3-8. According to biblical scholar Frederick H. A. Scrivener, it seems to be Stephens' ς'.It was examined and described by Paulin Martin. C. R. Gregory saw the manuscript in 1885.
Wettstein gave the number 7 to it.
The codex is currently located at the Bibliothèque nationale de France in Paris.