Minuscule 77 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), A143 (von Soden),[1] is a Greek minuscule manuscript of the New Testament, on parchment leaves. Palaeographically it has been assigned to the 11th century.[2] It has complex contents and full marginalia.
The codex contains a complete text of the four Gospels with a commentary on 302 leaves (size).[2] The parchment is thin. The biblical text written in 21 lines per page, the text of commentary in 54 lines per page.[3] It is written in very neat minuscule letters. The initial letters are in colour.[3]
The text is divided according to the Greek, Ancient (to 1453);: κεφαλαια (chapters), whose numbers are given at the margin, and the Greek, Ancient (to 1453);: τιτλοι (titles of chapters) at the top of the pages. There is also a division according to the Ammonian Sections (in Mark 233 sections – the last in 16:8), and references to the Eusebian Canons (written below Ammonian Section numbers).[3]
It contains the Epistula ad Carpianum, Eusebian Canon tables, Prolegomena, lists of the Greek, Ancient (to 1453);: κεφαλαια (tables of contents) are placed before each of the Gospels.[4] Lectionary markings (for liturgical use) and synaxaria added by a later hand.[4]
The Greek text of the codex is a representative of the Byzantine text-type. Aland placed it in Category V.[5] It was not examined by the Claremont Profile Method.[6]
The manuscript once belonged to Matthias Corvinus, the great King of Hungary (1458-1490) (as codex 78).[4] It was collated in 1773 by Treschow,[7] and by Alter.[4] Alter used it in his edition of the Greek text of the New Testament.[8] C. R. Gregory saw it in 1887.[3]
It is currently housed at the Austrian National Library (Theol. gr. 154), at Vienna.[2]