Minuscule 127 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), A124 (Soden),[1] is a Greek minuscule manuscript of the New Testament, on parchment leaves. Palaeographically it has been assigned to the 11th century.[2] The manuscript has complex contents; marginalia are incomplete.
The codex contains the text of the four Gospels on 378 thick parchment leaves (size).[2] The text is written in one column per page, 26 lines per page. The ink is brown, the large initials in red.[3]
There is space and lines stand blank for a commentary, but it was seldom written.[3]
It is neatly written, with a few corrections added by a later hand (e.g. Matthew 27:49).
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 of the pages. There is also another division according to the smaller Ammonian Sections (in Mark 233 sections, the last in 16:8), but there is no references to the Eusebian Canons.[3]
It contains the Epistula ad Carpianum, Eusebian Canon tables at the beginning, prolegomena, tables of the Greek, Ancient (to 1453);: κεφαλαια (tables of contents) before each Gospel, and lectionary markings for liturgical readings at the margin.[4]
The Greek text of the codex is a representative of the Byzantine text-type. Aland placed it in Category V.[5]
According to the Claremont Profile Method it creates textual cluster 127. It is close to minuscule 132.[6]
The manuscript was examined by Birch (about 1782). C. R. Gregory saw the manuscript in 1886.[3]
The manuscript is currently housed at the Vatican Library (Vat. gr. 349), at Rome.[2]