Minuscule 270 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), ε 291 (Soden),[1] is a Greek minuscule manuscript of the New Testament, on parchment. Paleographically it has been assigned to the 12th century.[2] The manuscript has complex contents.
The codex contains a complete text of the four Gospels on 346 parchment leaves . The text is written in one column per page, in 19 lines per page.[2]
The text is divided according to the Greek, Ancient (to 1453);: κεφαλαια (chapters), whose numbers are given at the margin of the text, and their 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 Mark 234 sections, the last in 16:9), with references to the Eusebian Canons (written below Ammonian Section numbers).
It contains prolegomena to the Gospel of John, Synaxarion, Menologion, and pictures.[3]
The Greek text of the codex is a representative of the Byzantine text-type. Aland placed it in Category V.[4]
According to the Claremont Profile Method it represents textual family Πb in Luke 1, family Πa in Luke 10 and Luke 20.[5]
The manuscript was added to the list of New Testament manuscripts by Scholz (1794–1852).[6]
The manuscript was bought from Spyridion Lambros from Athens in 1859, along with 22 other manuscripts of the New Testament (codices: 269, 271, 272, 688, 689, 690, 691, 692, 693, etc.).
Scholz examined a large part of the manuscript. Minuscule 270 was examined by Dean Burgon. It was examined and described by Paulin Martin.[7] C. R. Gregory saw the manuscript in 1885.[3]
Formerly the manuscript was held in the library of St. Silvester in Rome.[3] The manuscript is currently housed at the Bibliothèque nationale de France (Gr. 75) at Paris.[2]