Minuscule 262 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), ε 1020 (Soden),[1] is a Greek minuscule manuscript of the New Testament, on parchment. Palaeographically it has been assigned to the 10th century.[2] It has marginalia.
The codex contains the text of the four Gospels on 212 parchment leaves . The text is written in two columns per page, in 27 lines.[2]
The text is divided according to the Greek, Ancient (to 1453);: κεφαλαια (chapters), whose numbers are given at the margin, and some Greek, Ancient (to 1453);: τιτλοι (titles of chapters) at the top of the pages. The Ammonian Sections and references to the Eusebian Canons to Gospel of Luke and Gospel of John were added by a later hand.
It contains lists of the Greek, Ancient (to 1453);: κεφαλαια (tables of contents) before each Gospel, and subscriptions at the end of each Gospel.[3]
It has the famous Jerusalem Colophon ("from the ancient manuscripts of Jerusalem").
The Greek text of the codex is a representative of the Byzantine text-type. Hermann von Soden classified it to the textual group Ir. Aland placed it in Category V.[4]
According to the Claremont Profile Method it represents textual group Λ.[5]
It has some rare readings like codex Λ, 300, 376, and 428.
According to Gregory it could have been written in Italy. In 1735 it was brought from Constantinople to Europe.[3]
The manuscripts was added to the list of New Testament manuscripts by Scholz (1794-1852).[6] It was examined and described by Paulin Martin.[7] C. R. Gregory saw the manuscript in 1884.[3]
The manuscript is currently housed at the Bibliothèque nationale de France (Gr. 53) at Paris.[2]