Minuscule 299 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), A21 (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 a complete text of the four Gospels on 328 parchment leaves . The text is written in one column per page, in 24 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 another division according to the smaller Ammonian Sections (in Mark 240, 16:8), with references to the Eusebian Canons.
It contains the Epistula ad Carpianum, Prolegomena, the Eusebian tables, Synaxarion, Menologion, subscriptions at the end of each Gospel, and pictures.[3] The biblical text is surrounded by a commentary (Mark – Victorinus).[3]
The Greek text of the codex is a mixture of text-types. Kurt Aland did not place it in any Category.[4]
It was not examined by using the Claremont Profile Method.[5]
It 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 1885.[3]
The manuscript is currently housed at the Bibliothèque nationale de France (Gr. 177) at Paris.[2]