Minuscule 187 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), ε 222 (Soden),[1] is a Greek minuscule manuscript of the New Testament, on parchment. Palaeographically it has been assigned to the 12th century.[2] It has marginalia.
The codex contains a complete text of the four Gospels on 212 thick parchment leaves (size).[2] The text is written in one column per page, in 25 lines per page,[2] the capital letters in gold.[3]
The text is divided according to the Greek, Ancient (to 1453);: κεφαλαια (chapters), whose numbers are given at the margin, and the 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 237 Sections), (no references to the Eusebian Canons).[3]
It contains the Epistula ad Carpianum, the Eusebian Canon tables, the tables of the Greek, Ancient (to 1453);: κεφαλαια (tables of contents) before each Gospel, all in gold, and pictures.[3] A peculiar kind of asterisk occurs very frequently in the text and margin.[4]
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 belongs to the textual family Kx in Luke 1, Luke 10, and Luke 20. It creates textual cluster 187.[6]
Minuscule 218 is close.
The manuscripts was examined and described by Bandini, Birch, Scholz, and Burgon. C. R. Gregory saw it in 1886.[3]
It is currently housed at the Laurentian Library (Plutei. VI. 23), at Florence.[2]