Minuscule 747 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), A220 (von Soden),[1] [2] is a Greek minuscule manuscript of the New Testament written on parchment. It is dated by a Colophon to 1164 CE. The manuscript has complex contents.[3] [4] Scrivener labelled it as 741e.[5]
The codex contains a complete text of the four Gospels on 376 parchment leaves (size). The text is written in one column per page, 9-25 lines per page for biblical text, and 47 lines per page for a commentary's text.
The text is divided according to the Greek, Ancient (to 1453);: κεφαλαια (chapters), whose numbers are given at the margin, and their Greek, Ancient (to 1453);: τιτλοι (titles) at the top. There is also another division according to the smaller Ammonian Sections (Mark 241 sections, the last section in 16:20), with references to the Eusebian Canons (written below Ammonian Section numbers).[6]
It contains the Epistula ad Carpianum, Eusebian Canon tables, tables of the Greek, Ancient (to 1453);: κεφαλαια (tables of contents) before each Gospel, and pictures. Lectionary markings at the margin were added by a later hand.
It has a commentary, John 6:19-21:25 has not a commentary.
Aland the Greek text of the codex did not place in any Category.[7]
According to the Claremont Profile Method it represents textual family Kx in Luke 10 and Luke 20. In Luke 1 it has mixed Byzantine text.[8]
According to the colophon the manuscript was written in 1164. In that way Scrivener and von Soden deciphered colophon. Gregory deciphered it as 1164 or 1169.[6] According to Hermann von Soden the colophon could be added by a later hand.
The manuscript was added to the list of New Testament manuscripts by Scrivener (741) and Gregory (747). It was examined and described by Paulin Martin.[9] Gregory saw the manuscript in 1885.
The manuscript was examined by Kirsopp Lake.[10]
The manuscript is now housed at the Bibliothèque nationale de France (Suppl. Gr. 612) in Paris.