Minuscule 290 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), ε 512 (Soden),[1] is a Greek minuscule paper manuscript of the New Testament. Paleographic analysis it has assigned it to the 14th century.[2] It has marginalia.
The codex contains a complete text of the four Gospels on 259 paper 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.
It contains Argumentum, lists of the Greek, Ancient (to 1453);: κεφαλαια (lists of contents) before each Gospel with a harmony, lectionary markings at the margin, Greek, Ancient (to 1453);: αναγνωσεις (lessons), Synaxarion, and subscriptions at the end of each Gospel, with numbers of stixoi and numbers of Verses.[3]
The Greek text of the codex is a representative of the Byzantine text-type. Hermann von Soden classified it to the textual family Kr. Aland placed it in Category V.[4] According to the Claremont Profile Method it belongs to the textual family Kr in Luke 1 and Luke 20, and creates textual pair with 363.[5]
Formerly the manuscript was held at Sorbonne.[3] It was added to the list of New Testament manuscripts by Scholz (1794-1852).[6] It was examined by Scholz.[3] It was examined and described by Paulin Martin.[7] C. R. Gregory saw the manuscript in 1885.[3]
The manuscript is currently housed at the Bibliothèque nationale de France (Suppl. Gr. 108) at Paris.[2]