Minuscule 779 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), ε472 (von Soden),[1] [2] is a Greek minuscule manuscript of the New Testament written on parchment. Palaeographically it has been assigned to the 12th century. The manuscript has complex contents.[3] [4]
The codex contains the text of the four Gospels, on 171 parchment leaves (size).[3] The text is written in one column per page, 26-28 lines per page.[3] Some leaves are wrongly bound.
The text is divided according to the Ammonian Sections, but without references to the Eusebian Canons.
It contains lectionary markings at the margin, incipits, liturgical books with hagiographies (Synaxarion, Menologion), 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. Aland placed it in Category V.[6]
According to the Claremont Profile Method it represent the textual family Kx in Luke 1 and Luke 20. In Luke 10 it has mixed Byzantine text. It is related to Π groups.[7]
C. R. Gregory dated the manuscript to the 12th century.[5] The manuscript is currently dated by the INTF to the 12th century.[4]
The manuscript was noticed in catalogue from 1876.[8]
It was added to the list of New Testament manuscripts by Gregory (779). Gregory saw the manuscript in 1886.[5]
The manuscript is now housed at the National Library of Greece (127) in Athens.