Minuscule 364 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), ε 1011 (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 284 parchment leaves with catena. It is written in one column per page, in 20 lines per page.[2] The style of characters rather peculiar, without the usual breaks between the Gospels.[3] The style of the characters resembles Slavonic.
The original text of the manuscript was not divided. It was divided by a later hand 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). There is also a division according to the smaller Ammonian Sections, with references to the Eusebian Canons (only in Matthew). This division also was added by later hand.[3]
It contains Synaxarion and Menologion that were added in the 15th century. Text of Matthew 1:1-13 was added in the 15th century.[4]
The Greek text of the codex is a representative of the Byzantine text-type. Hermann von Soden classified it to the textual family Kx.[4] Aland placed it in Category V.[5] According to the Claremont Profile Method it represents the textual family Kx in Luke 1, Luke 10, and Luke 20, and belongs to the textual cluster Ω.[6]
In John 8:8 the codex has unique textual addition: Greek, Ancient (to 1453);: ενος εκαστου αυτων τας αμαρτιας (sins of every one of them).[4] This textual variant have Codex Nanianus, 73, 331, 413, 658, 700, 782, 1592 and some Armenian manuscripts. 652 has this variant on the margin added by a later hand. Minuscule 264 has this textual variant in John 8:6.
The manuscript was added to the list of New Testament manuscripts by Scholz (1794–1852).[7] It was examined by Burgon. C. R. Gregory saw it in 1886.[4]
The manuscript is currently housed at the Biblioteca Laurentiana (Plutei VI. 24) in Florence.[2]