Minuscule 371 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), ε 1003 (Soden),[1] is a Greek minuscule manuscript of the New Testament, on parchment. Palaeographically it has been assigned to the 10th century.[2] It contains marginalia.
The codex contains the text of the four Gospels on 315 parchment leaves . It is written in one column per page, in 20–21 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 233 Sections, the last section in 16:8), whose numbers are given at the margin, with references to the Eusebian Canons.
It contains the Eusebian Canon tables, tables of the Greek, Ancient (to 1453);: κεφαλαια (tables of contents) before each Gospel, and pictures.[3]
The Greek text of the codex is a representative of the Byzantine text-type. Hermann von Soden classified it to the textual family Kx. Aland placed it in Category V.[4] According to the Claremont Profile Method it belongs to the textual group 291 in Luke 1 (weak), Luke 10, and Luke 20.[5]
The manuscript was added to the list of New Testament manuscripts by Scholz (1794–1852).[6] It was examined by Burgon. C. R. Gregory saw the manuscript in 1886.[3]
The manuscript is currently housed at the Vatican Library (Vat. gr. 1159) in Rome.[2]