Minuscule 151 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), A17 (Soden),[1] is a Greek minuscule manuscript of the New Testament, on parchment leaves. Palaeographically it has been assigned to the 10th century.[2] The manuscript has complex contents. It has marginalia.
The codex contains a complete text of the four Gospels on 224 parchment leaves (size) with a commentary.[2]
The text is written in one column per page, in 28 lines per page. Ink is black, the capital letters in colour and gold.[3]
The text is divided according to the Greek, Ancient (to 1453);: κεφαλαια (chapters), whose numbers are given at the margin of the text, and their Greek, Ancient (to 1453);: τιτλοι (titles of chapters) at the top of the pages. There is also another division according to the smaller Ammonian Sections (in Mark 241, last numbered section in 16:20), without references to the Eusebian Canons (written below Ammonian Section numbers).[3]
It contains the Epistula ad Carpianum, Eusebian Canon tables, tables of the Greek, Ancient (to 1453);: κεφαλαια (tables of contents) are given before each Gospel, pictures, and scholia in the margin,[4] Menologion, stichoi, and pictures. Hebrew words explained at the beginning.[3]
The Greek text of the codex is a representative of the Byzantine text-type. Aland placed it in Category V.[5] According to the Claremont Profile Method it represents the textual family Kx in Luke 1, Luke 10, and Luke 20. It belongs to the textual cluster Ω.[6]
The spurious texts of (signs of the times) and the Pericope Adulterae (John 7:53-8:11) are omitted.[3]
It contains some rare readings (e.g. John 19:14).[4]
Birch and Scrivener dated it to the 11th century. Currently it is dated by the INTF to the 10th century.[2] [7]
It was examined by Birch (about 1782) and Scholz. C. R. Gregory saw it in 1886.[3]
Text of Mark 16:8-20 of the codex was used by Cardinal Angelo Mai in his edition of the text of Codex Vaticanus Graecus 1209 ("pseudo-facsimile" published posthumously in 1857).[8]
It is currently housed at the Vatican Library (Pal. gr. 220), at Rome.[2]