Minuscule 651 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), ε 1187 (von Soden),[1] is a Greek minuscule manuscript of the New Testament, on parchment. Palaeographically it has been assigned to the 11th century. The manuscript has complex contents.[2] Scrivener labelled it by 874e.[3]
The codex contains the text of the four Gospels, on 190 parchment leaves (size). The text is written in one column per page, 25 lines per page.[2]
It contains Prolegomena, the tables of the Greek, Ancient (to 1453);: κεφαλαια (tables of contents) are placed before every Gospel, the numbered Greek, Ancient (to 1453);: κεφαλαια and their Greek, Ancient (to 1453);: τιτλοι at the top; the Ammonian Sections (Matthew 355 has sections; Mark 234 Sections (the last in 16:9); Luke 342 sections; John 233 sections) are given, but not the references to the Eusebian Canons; it has lectionary markings, incipits, Synaxarion, and Menologion.[4]
Some corrections were made by a later hand on the margin.[4]
The Greek text of the codex is a representative of the Byzantine text-type. Hermann von Soden classified it as a member of the textual family Kx. Kurt Aland placed it in Category V.[5] According to the Wisse's Profile Method it represents textual group M651.[6]
In Gospel of John 8:9 it has unique textual variant Greek, Ancient (to 1453);: οι δε αναγινωσκοντες instead of Greek, Ancient (to 1453);: οι δε ακουσαντες (as minuscule 725).[4]
Gregory dated the manuscript to the 11th or 12th century. Currently the manuscript is dated by the INTF to the 11th century.[7]
C. R. Gregory saw the manuscript in 1889.[4]
The manuscript currently is housed at the Anhalt. Landesbücherei, s. n., at Dessau.[2] [7]