Minuscule 790 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), ε613 (von Soden),[1] [2] is a Greek minuscule manuscript of the New Testament written on paper. Palaeographically it has been assigned to the 14th century. The manuscript has no complex contents.[3] [4] It contains liturgical books.
The codex contains the text of the four Gospels, on 240 paper leaves (size), with some lacunae.[3] It lack the texts of Matthew 1:1-13; 28:7-20; Mark 1:1-16; 16:5-20; Luke 1:1-17; 21:21-38.
The text is written in one column per page, 24 lines per page.[3]
The text is divided according to the Greek, Ancient (to 1453);: κεφαλαια (chapters), whose numbers are given at the margin, with their Greek, Ancient (to 1453);: τιτλοι (titles) at the top of the pages. There is also another division according to the smaller Ammonian Sections, with a references to the Eusebian Canons (at the beginning).
It contains Prolegomena, Argumentum, tables of the Greek, Ancient (to 1453);: κεφαλαια before each Gospel, lectionary markings at the margin, incipits, liturgical books with hagiographies Synaxarion and Menologion.[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.[7]
According to Gregory the manuscript was written in the 14th century.[5] The manuscript is currently dated by the INTF to the 14th century.[4]
According to Hermann von Soden it was written in the West.[1]
Formerly it was housed in the monastery μεγαλων πυλων 39.[5] The manuscript was noticed in catalogue from 1876.[8]
It was added to the list of New Testament manuscripts by Gregory (790). Gregory saw the manuscript in 1886.[5]
The manuscript is now housed at the National Library of Greece (86) in Athens.