Minuscule 54 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), ε 445 (Von Soden),[1] is a Greek minuscule manuscript of the New Testament, on parchment leaves. It is dated by a colophon to the year 1337 or 1338.[2] [3] It has complex contents and marginalia.
The codex contains complete text of the four Gospels on 230 leaves (size). The text is written in one column per page, 23-27 lines per page.[2] Name of scribe was Theodosius.[4]
The text was broken up into paragraphs, beginning with red capital letters.[5] The text is divided according to the Greek, Ancient (to 1453);: κεφαλαια (chapters), whose numbers are given at the margin, with their Greek, Ancient (to 1453);: τιτλοι (titles) at the top of the pages. There is also a division according to the smaller Ammonian Sections, but no references to the Eusebian Canons.[4]
It contains synaxaria, Menologion, Eusebian Canon tables at the beginning, tables of the Greek, Ancient (to 1453);: κεφαλαια (tables of contents) before each Gospel, lectionary markings at the margin (for liturgical use), pictures, and subscriptions at the end of the Gospels.[5]
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.[6] According to the Claremont Profile Method it has mixed Byzantine text in Luke 1 and Luke 10; in Luke 20 it represents Kx. It is related to the Π.[7]
The manuscript was ancestor for the codices 47, 56, 58. Its text is familiar to the manuscript 171 and 109.[4]
The manuscript was written by Theodosius.[4] In 1636 William Laud presented the manuscript to the Bodleian Library.[4] It was examined by Mill (Selden 2) and Bentley. Bentley used it as codex κ.[5] C. R. Gregory saw it in 1883.[4]
It is currently housed in at the Bodleian Library (Selden Supra 29), at Oxford.[2]