Minuscule 142 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), δ 151 (Soden),[1] is a Greek minuscule manuscript of the New Testament, on parchment leaves. Palaeographically it had been assigned to the 11th century.[2]
The codex contains the text of the New Testament (except Book of Revelation) on 324 parchment leaves (size).[2] It containing Book of Psalms.[3] The order of New Testament books: Gospels, Acts, Catholic epistles, Pauline epistles. It contains also Hymns and Psalms.
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.
It is neatly written (Scrivener) in one column per page, 30 lines per page.[2] The letters are very small and beautiful. The ink is brown. It contains tables of the Greek, Ancient (to 1453);: κεφαλαια (tables of contents) before each book, (synaxaria, Menologion added in 1447), subscriptions at the end of each book, pictures, and the Euthalian Apparatus.[4] There are many marginal readings in another ancient hand.[3]
The Greek text of the codex is a representative of the Byzantine text-type. Hermann von Soden classified it to the textual family Kx. Aland placed it in Category V.[5] According to the Claremont Profile Method it belongs to Kx in Luke 10 and Luke 20. In Luke 1 it has mixed Byzantine text.[6]
The manuscript was examined by Birch (about 1782) and Scholz. C. R. Gregory saw it in 1886.[4]
It is currently housed at the Vatican Library (Vat. gr. 1210), at Rome.[2]