Minuscule 277 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), ε 166 (Soden),[1] is a Greek minuscule manuscript of the New Testament, on parchment. Paleographically it has been assigned to the 11th century.[2] It has marginalia.
The codex contains the text of the four Gospels on 261 parchment leaves . The text is written in one column per page, in 22 lines per page.[2]
The text is divided according to the Greek, Ancient (to 1453);: κεφαλαια (chapters), whose numbers are given at the margin, and their 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 234, the last section in 16:9), whose numbers are given at the margin with references to the Eusebian Canons.
It contains the Epistula ad Carpianum, Eusebian tables, tables of the Greek, Ancient (to 1453);: κεφαλαια (tables of contents) before each Gospel, lectionary markings at the margin, subscriptions at the end of each Gospel, with numbers of Greek, Ancient (to 1453);: [[Stichometry|στιχοι]].[3] Some portions (Greek, Ancient (to 1453);: αναγνωσεις, Synaxarion, Menologion, and pictures) were supplied by a later hand.[4]
The Greek text of the codex is a representative of the Byzantine text-type. Hermann von Soden classified it to the textual family K1. Aland placed it in Category V.[5]
According to the Claremont Profile Method it represents textual family Kx in Luke 1 and Luke 20, and belongs to the cluster Ω. In Luke 10 no profile was made.[6]
The manuscript was added to the list of New Testament manuscripts by Scholz (1794-1852).[7] It was examined and described by Paulin Martin.[8] C. R. Gregory saw the manuscript in 1885.[3]
The manuscript is currently housed at the Bibliothèque nationale de France (Gr. 81 A) at Paris.[2]