Minuscule 208 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), ε 127 (Soden),[1] is a Greek minuscule manuscript of the New Testament, on parchment. Paleographically it has been assigned to the 11th century.[2] It has marginalia.
The codex contains a complete text of the four Gospels on 239 parchment leaves (size).[2] The text is written in one column per page, in 23 lines per page.[3]
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 of chapters) at the top. There is also another division according to the smaller Ammonian Sections (in Mark 233 sections, the last in 16:8), with references to the Eusebian Canons (written below Ammonian Section numbers).[3]
It contains the Epistula ad Carpianum, the Eusebian tables, and tables of the Greek, Ancient (to 1453);: κεφαλαια (tables of contents) before each Gospel.[4] [3]
The text of John 7:53-8:11 is placed at the end of the Gospel of John.[3]
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.[5] According to the Claremont Profile Method it represents Kx in Luke 1 and Luke 20. In Luke 10 no profile was made.[6]
The manuscript was examined by Birch and Burgon. C. R. Gregory saw it in 1886.[3]
It is currently housed at the Biblioteca Marciana (Gr. Z 9), at Venice.[2]