Minuscule 123 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), ε 174 (Von Soden numbering),[1] is a Greek minuscule manuscript of the New Testament on a parchment. Palaeographically it has been assigned to the 11th century.[2] It has complex contents with some marginalia.
The codex contains a complete text of the four Gospels on 328 thick parchment leaves . The text is written in one column per page, 18 lines per page.
The text is divided according to the Greek, Ancient (to 1453);: κεφαλαια (chapters), whose numbers are given at the margin, and their Greek, Ancient (to 1453);: τιτλοι (titles of chapters) at the top of the pages. There is also a division according to the smaller Ammonian Sections (in Mark 241 – 16:20), but without references to the Eusebian Canons.[3]
It contains the Epistula ad Carpianum, the Eusebian Canon tables, Prolegomena, tables of the Greek, Ancient (to 1453);: κεφαλαια (tables of contents) before each Gospel, pictures, and subscriptions at the end of each Gospel.[4]
The Greek text of the codex is a representative of the Byzantine text-type. Hermann von Soden classified it to the textual family Kx. Kurt Aland places it in Category V.[5]
According to the Claremont Profile Method it represents textual family Kx in Luke 1, Luke 10, and Luke 20.[6]
Some corrections were made by another hand.[4]
The manuscript was brought from Constantinople by the ambassador Augier de Busbeck in 1562 (along with Minuscule 221 and 222).
It was examined by Treschow, Alter, Birch.[4] Alter used it in his edition of the Greek text of the New Testament.[7] C. R. Gregory saw it in 1887.
Currently the codex is located at the Austrian National Library (Theol. Gr. 240) at Vienna.