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Minuscule 301

Minuscule 301 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), A¹⁵⁶ (Soden),^[1] is a Greek minuscule manuscript of the New Testament, on parchment. Palaeographically it has been assigned to the 11th century.^[2] It has marginalia.

The codex contains a complete text of the four Gospels on 221 parchment leaves (34 cm by 26.5 cm) with a commentary. The text is written in one column per page, the biblical text in 22 lines per page, the text of a commentary in 48 lines per page.^[2]

It contains tables of the κεφαλαια (tables of contents) before each Gospel, a division according to the Ammonian Sections, subscriptions at the end of each Gospel, and numbers of στιχοι. It lacks references to the Eusebian Canons.^[3]

Biblical text is surrounded by a catena. In the Gospel of Mark, the commentary is of Victorinus's authorship.^[3]

The Greek text of the codex is a representative of the Byzantine text-type. Aland placed it in Category V.^[4] According to the Claremont Profile Method it belongs to the textual family K^x and creates textual pair with Minuscule 373 in Luke 1, Luke 10, and Luke 20.^[5]

The Pericope Adulterae (John 7:53-8:11) is placed at the end of John.^[3]

The manuscript once belonged to Jean Hurault de Boistaillé (like codices 10, 203, 263, 306, 314).^[3]

The manuscript was added to the list of New Testament manuscripts by Scholz (1794-1852).^[6] It was examined and described by Scholz, Paulin Martin,^[7] and C. R. Gregory.^[3]

The manuscript is currently housed at the Bibliothèque nationale de France (Gr. 187) at Paris.^[2]

• List of New Testament minuscules
• Biblical manuscript
• Textual criticism

• Gregory, Caspar René (1900). Textkritik des Neuen Testaments. Vol. 1. Leipzig: J.C. Hinrichs. p. 176.
• Jean-Pierre-Paul Martin, Description technique des manuscrits grecs relatifs au Nouveau Testament, conservés dans les bibliothèques de Paris (Paris 1883), p. 78.