Minuscule 305 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), Zε30 (Soden),[1] is a Greek minuscule manuscript of the New Testament, on cotton paper. Paleographically it has been assigned to the 13th century.[2] It has marginalia.
The codex contains the text of the four Gospels on 261 cotton paper leaves with one lacuna (John 21:6-25). The text is written in one column per page, in 51-54 lines per page.[2]
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, but added by a later hand.
It contains tables of the Greek, Ancient (to 1453);: κεφαλαια (tables of contents) before each Gospel. Lectionary markings at the margin, and incipits were added by a later hand. The biblical text is surrounded by a catena of the authorship of Euthymius Zigabenus.[3] [4]
The text of John 21:6-25 was added by a later hand.[3]
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 Cardinal Mazarin (along with minuscule 14, 311, 313, and 324).[4]
It was added to the list of New Testament manuscripts by Scholz (1794-1852).[7] The manuscript was examined by Wettstein, Scholz, and Martin.[8] C. R. Gregory saw the manuscript in 1885.[3]
The manuscript is currently housed at the Bibliothèque nationale de France (Gr. 195) at Paris.[2]