Minuscule 393 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), δ 452 (Soden),[1] is a Greek minuscule manuscript of the New Testament, on paper. Palaeographically it has been assigned to the 14th century.[2] It has marginalia.
The codex contains the text of the New Testament except Book of Revelation on 222 paper leaves . The text is written in one column per page, in 34 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 the Greek, Ancient (to 1453);: τιτλοι (titles) at the top of the pages. It contains lectionary markings at the margin (for liturgical use), they were added by later hand.[3]
The order of books is unusual: Acts, Catholic epistles, Pauline epistles, Gospels, Book of Psalms with Hymns.[3]
The Greek text of the codex is a representative of the Byzantine text-type. According to Hermann von Soden it represents recension established by Lucian in Antioch about A.D. 300. Aland placed it in Category V.[4] According to the Claremont Profile Method it has mixture of the Byzantine families in Luke 1, Luke 10, and Luke 20, with some relationship to Π groups.[5]
Oscar von Gebhardt saw the manuscript in 1882, C. R. Gregory in 1886.[3]
The manuscript was added to the list of New Testament manuscripts by Scholz (1794–1852).[6]
The manuscript is currently housed at the Biblioteca Vallicelliana (E. 22) in Rome.[2]