Minuscule 396 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), ε 217 (Soden),[1] is a Greek minuscule manuscript of the New Testament, on parchment. Paleographically it has been assigned to the 12th century.[2] It has marginalia.
The codex contains the text of the four Gospels on 115 parchment leaves with one large lacunae (Matthew 1:1-23:27). It is written in one column per page, in 27 lines per page, in silver.[2]
The text is divided according to numbers of 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. There is also a division according to the smaller Ammonian Sections (in Mark 240 Sections, the last in 16:9), with references to the Eusebian Canons (written below Ammonian Section numbers).
It contains Argumentum and the tables of the Greek, Ancient (to 1453);: κεφαλαια (tables of contents) before each Gospel.[3] [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. Aland placed it in Category V.[5]
According to the Claremont Profile Method it represents textual family Kx in Luke 1 and Luke 20. In Luke 10 no profile was made. In Luke 1 it belongs to the cluster Ω.[6]
The manuscript was added to the list of New Testament manuscripts by Scholz (1794–1852).[7]
It was examined by Scholz, Gebhardt (1882), and C. R. Gregory (1886).[3]
The manuscript is currently housed at the Vatican Library (Chis. R IV 6 (gr. 6) in Rome.[2]