Minuscule 272
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Minuscule 272 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), ε 1182 (Soden), is a Greek minuscule manuscript of the New Testament, on parchment. Paleographically it had been assigned to the 11th century.
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Description
The codex contains the text of the four Gospels on 218 parchment leaves (19.2 cm by 13.2 cm). Written in one column per page, in 21 lines per page.<ref name = Aland/> It contains the Epistula ad Carpianum, Eusebian tables, tables of κεφαλαια, κεφαλαια, τιτλοι, Ammonian Sections, Eusebian Canons (mostly omitted), Synaxarion, Menologion, and subscriptions.
Text
The Greek text of the codex is a representative of the Byzantine text-type. Aland placed it in Category V.<ref>Kurt Aland, and Barbara Aland, "The Text of the New Testament: An Introduction to the Critical Editions and to the Theory and Practice of Modern Textual Criticism", transl. Erroll F. Rhodes, William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, Grand Rapids, Michigan, 1995, p. 138. </ref> It belongs to the textual family K1.
Passage Matthew 16:2b-3 is excluded.<ref name = Gregory/>
History
The manuscript once belonged to Melchisedek Thevenot's († 1692), then it was held at the Bibliothèque nationale de France. Thomas Rodd, librarian, purchased it for the British Museum.<ref name = Gregory/>
The manuscripts was added to the list of New Testament manuscripts by Scholz (1794-1852).
The manuscript is currently housed at the British Library (Add. 15581) at London.<ref name = Aland/>
