Minuscule 26 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), ε 165 (von Soden),[1] is a Greek minuscule manuscript of the New Testament, written on vellum, on 179 leaves. Palaeographically it has been assigned to the 11th-century.[2] [3] It has marginalia.
The codex contains a complete text of the four Gospels on 179 parchment leaves with lacunae. The text is written in one column per page, 27-28 lines per page.[4] The text is written neatly and correctly.
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 240, the last in 16:19). There is no references to the Eusebian Canons.[4]
It contains the Epistula ad Carpianum, Prolegomena, Eusebian Canon tables, lectionary markings at the margin (for liturgical use), liturgical books with hagiographies (Synaxarion, and Menologion).[5]
Kurt Aland the Greek text of the codex did not place in any Category.[6] According to the Claremont Profile Method it represents textual family Kx in Luke 10 and Luke 20. In Luke 1 it has mixture of the Byzantine families.[7]
The manuscript was written by Paulus, a scribe.[4] It is dated by the INTF to the 11th-century.
It was added to the list of the New Testament manuscripts by Wettstein, who gave it the number 26. It was examined and described by Scholz (1794-1852), Paulin Martin,[8] and Henri Omont. C. R. Gregory saw the manuscript in 1885.
It is currently housed at the Bibliothèque nationale de France (Gr. 78) at Paris.
. Caspar René Gregory. Die griechischen Handschriften des Neuen Testament. 1908. J. C. Hinrichs'sche Buchhandlung. Leipzig. 49.
. Caspar René Gregory . Textkritik des Neuen Testamentes . J.C. Hinrichs . 1900 . Leipzig . 1 . 134 .
. Frederick Henry Ambrose Scrivener . Edward Miller . . . 1894 . London . 4 . 1 . 194 .
. Kurt Aland . Aland . Barbara . Barbara Aland . Erroll F. Rhodes (trans.) . The Text of the New Testament: An Introduction to the Critical Editions and to the Theory and Practice of Modern Textual Criticism . . 1995 . Grand Rapids . 129, 138 . 978-0-8028-4098-1.