Minuscule 717 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), ε274 (von Soden),[1] [2] is a Greek minuscule manuscript of the New Testament, on parchment. Palaeographically it has been assigned to the 11th or 12th century. The manuscript has complex contents.[3] [4]
The codex contains the text of the four Gospels, on 277 parchment leaves (size).[3] [5]
The text is written in one column per page, 21 lines per page.[3] The text is divided according to the Greek, Ancient (to 1453);: κεφαλαια (chapters), whose numbers are given at the left margin of the text and their Greek, Ancient (to 1453);: τιτλοι (titles) are given at the top. The text is also divided according to the smaller Ammonian Sections (in Mark 240, the last section in 16:19), whose numbers are given at the margin, but there are not a references to the Eusebian Canons.[5]
The manuscript contains Epistula ad Carpianum, the Eusebian Canon tables at the beginning. It contains lectionary markings at the margin, Synaxarion, Menologion, subscriptions at the end, and pictures.[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. Kurt Aland placed it in Category V.[6]
According to the Claremont Profile Method it represents Kx in Luke 1 and Luke 10. In Luke 20 no profile was made.[7]
Gregory dated the manuscript to the 13th century.[5] Currently the manuscript is dated by the INTF to the 11th or 12th century.[4]
The manuscript once belonged to the monk Gerasimus.[5]
It was added to the list of New Testament manuscripts by Gregory (717). Gregory saw the manuscript in 1883.[5]
At present the manuscript is housed at the British Library (Cheltenham) in London.[3] [4]