Minuscule 260 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), ε 369 (Soden),[1] is a Greek minuscule manuscript of the New Testament, on parchment. Palaeographically it has been assigned to the 13th century.[2] It has marginalia.
The codex contains the text of the four Gospels on 241 parchment leaves . The text is written in one column per page, in 24 lines per page.[2] [3]
The text is divided according to the Greek, Ancient (to 1453);: κεφαλαια (chapters), whose numbers are given at the margin, with the Greek, Ancient (to 1453);: τιτλοι (titles of chapters) at the top of the pages. There is also a division according to the smaller Ammonian Sections (in Μark 241 Sections – the last in 16:20), with references to the Eusebian Canons (written below Ammonian Section numbers).
It contains Prolegomena, tables of the Greek, Ancient (to 1453);: κεφαλαια (tables of contents) before each Gospel, and pictures.[4]
According to Scrivener the manuscript is correctly written.
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 represents textual family Kx in Luke 1 and Luke 20.[6]
The manuscript once belonged to "domini du Fresne" (as codex 309.[4] The manuscripts 260-469 were added to the list of New Testament manuscripts by Scholz (1794-1852).[7] It was examined and described by Scholz and Paulin Martin.[8] C. R. Gregory saw the manuscript in 1884.[4]
The manuscript is currently housed at the Bibliothèque nationale de France (Gr. 51) at Paris.