Minuscule 39 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), A140 (Von Soden),[1] is a Greek minuscule manuscript of the New Testament, written on vellum. Palaeographically it has been assigned to the 11th century. It has complex contents and some marginalia.
The codex contains a complete text of the four Gospels on 288 parchment leaves .[2] [3] Gospels of Matthew and Mark were written by different hands.
The text is divided according to the Greek, Ancient (to 1453);: κεφαλαια (chapters), whose numerals are given at the margin, with the Greek, Ancient (to 1453);: τιτλοι (titles of chapters) at the top of the pages. There is also a division according to the smaller Ammonian Sections (in Mark 241, the last section in 16:20).
It contains lists of the Greek, Ancient (to 1453);: κεφαλαια (tables of contents), and subscriptions at the end of each Gospel, with numbers of Greek, Ancient (to 1453);: [[Stichometry|στιχοι]]. It has a commentary, in Mark commentary of Victorinus, from the same original as in codex 34.[4]
It does not contains the texts of and the Pericope Adulterae (John 7:53-8:11).[5]
The Greek text of the codex is a representative of the Byzantine text-type. Aland placed it in Category V.[6] It was not examined by using the Claremont Profile Method.[7]
The manuscript was written in Constantinople by the Patriarch Sergius II (999–1019), in the beginning of the 11th century.[5] In 1218 it was brought by monk Makarius to the Athos.[4]
It was examined and described by Scholz, Burgon, and Paulin Martin.[8]
The manuscript was added to the list of the New Testament manuscripts by Wettstein. C. R. Gregory saw the manuscript in 1885.[5]
It is currently housed at the Bibliothèque nationale de France (Coislin Gr. 23) at Paris.