Minuscule 120 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), ε 1202 (Soden),[1] is a Greek minuscule manuscript of the New Testament, on parchment leaves. Palaeographically it has been assigned to the 12th or 13th century.[2] It has complex contents with some marginalia.
The codex contains a complete text of the Gospels of Matthew, Luke, John on 183 (177 + 6) parchment leaves (size).[2] The text is written in one column per page, 30 lines per page (size of text 12 by 8 cm). The large initial letters in gold, the ink is black.[3] The leaves 40-67 with Gospel of Mark were lost.[3]
The text of the Gospels is divided according to the Greek, Ancient (to 1453);: κεφαλαια (chapters), whose numbers are given at the margin, and Greek, Ancient (to 1453);: τιτλοι (titles of chapters) of these Greek, Ancient (to 1453);: κεφαλαια are inserted at the top of the pages. The text has also another division according to the smaller Ammonian Sections. It has no references to the Eusebian Canons.[3]
The Greek text of the codex is a representative of the Byzantine text-type. Aland placed it in Category V.[4]
According to Gregory textually it is very close to the codex 119.[3]
According to the Claremont Profile Method it represents textual family Kx in Luke 1, Luke 10, and Luke 20.[5]
It belongs to the textual cluster 17 along with manuscripts 30, 70, 287, 288, and 880.[6]
Formerly the manuscript belonged to St. Victor on the Walls. Probably it was used by Robert Estienne in his Editio Regia and was designed by him as ιδ'.[7]
The manuscript was examined and described by Griesbach[8] and Paulin Martin.[9] C. R. Gregory saw it in 1885 and 1891.[3]
It is currently housed at the Bibliothèque nationale de France (Supp. Gr. 185), at Paris.[2]