Codex Ephesinus

Minuscule 71 ( in the Gregory- Aland numbering ), ε 253 ( von Soden ), is a Greek Minuskelhandschrift of the New Testament on 265 parchment leaves ( 16.3 × 12.2 cm). The manuscript is dated by its colophon to the year 1160. The manuscript is complete.

Description

The Code contains the text of the four Gospels. He has written one column each with 20-26 rows and contains the Epistula ad Carpianum, lists of κεφαλαια, κεφαλαια, τιτλοι, Ammonianische sections (Matthew 356, Mark 234, Luke 342, John 219) and the Eusebischen canon. Lectionary markings were added in the 15th century.

The Greek text of this codex belonged to the family of texts 1424. Kurt Aland placed it in any category.

History

The Code once belonged to an archbishop of Ephesus. It was founded in 1675 by Philip Traheron, an English priest in Smyrna, brought to England.

In 1679, the code of the Library of Lambeth Palace was handed over in London, where he still is today.