Minuscule 144 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), ε 1001 (Soden),[1] is a Greek minuscule manuscript of the New Testament, on parchment leaves. Palaeographically it has been assigned to the 10th-century. It has full marginalia.
The codex contains the text of the four Gospels on 268 parchment leaves (size) with some lacunae.[2] The text is written in one column per page, 19-23 lines per page.[2] The initial letters are beautifully written (Gregory). Texts with Matthew 1:1-11:11 (folios 1-35) and John 14:1-21:25 (folios 241-268) were lost.[3] It has some additional matter at the end from Maximus and his Chronology from the 14th-century.
The text is divided according to the Greek, Ancient (to 1453);: κεφαλαια (chapters), whose numbers are given at the margin, with their Greek, Ancient (to 1453);: τιτλοι (titles of chapters) at the top of the pages. There is also a division according to the Ammonian Sections (in Mark 240 sections, the last section in 16:9). It has no a references to the Eusebian Canons (written below Ammonian Section numbers).
It contains the Eusebian Canon tables in uncial letters, and lectionary equipment at the margin (for liturgical use).[3] [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. Aland placed it in Category V.[5] According to the Claremont Profile Method it belongs to the textual family Kx in Luke 1, Luke 10, and Luke 20.[6]
F. H. A. Scrivener dated it to the 11th-century. C. R. Gregory hesitated in that case (10th or 11th-century).
It was examined by Birch (about 1782), Scholz. Gregory saw it in 1886.
It is currently housed at the Vatican Library (Vat. gr. 1254), at Rome.