Minuscule 207 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), ε 126 (Soden),[1] is a Greek minuscule manuscript of the New Testament, on parchment. Palaeographically it has been assigned to the 11th century.[2] The manuscript is lacunose. It has marginalia.
The codex contains the text of the four Gospels on 267 parchment leaves (size),[2] with some lacunae (Matthew 1:1-13; Mark 1:1-11 - for the sake of illuminations). It is written in two columns per page, in 22 lines per page.[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 241 sections), (no references to the Eusebian Canons).[3]
It contains Prolegomena to the four Gospels, Epistula ad Carpianum, pictures, tables of the Greek, Ancient (to 1453);: κεφαλαια (tables of contents) before each Gospel, synaxaria, and Menologion.[3] [4]
The Greek text of the codex is a representative of the Byzantine text-type. Hermann von Soden classified it as a member of the textual family Kx.[5] Aland placed it in Category V.[6] According to the Claremont Profile Method it represents the textual family Kx in Luke 1 and Luke 20. In Luke 10 no profile was made.[5]
The text of the Pericope Adulterae (John 7:53-8:11) is placed at the end of the Gospel of John.[3]
The manuscript once belonged to Basilios Bessarion.[3] According to the inscription it once belonged to A. F. R.[4]
The manuscript was examined by Birch and Burgon. C. R. Gregory saw it in 1886.[3]
It is currently housed at the Biblioteca Marciana (Gr. Z 8), at Venice.[2]