{{New Testament manuscript infobox | form = Minuscule | number = '''129''' | image = | isize = | caption= | name = | sign = | text = Gospels | script = Greek | date = 12th century | found = | now at = Vatican Library | cite = | size = {{×|28.7|22.6}} | type = Byzantine text-type | cat = V | hand = neatly written | note = marginalia }}
'''Minuscule 129''' (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), A<sup>200</sup> (Soden),<ref name = Gregory1908>{{cite book|last=Gregory|first=Caspar René|author-link=Caspar René Gregory|title=Die griechischen Handschriften des Neuen Testament|url=https://archive.org/stream/diegriechischen00greggoog#page/n63/mode/2up|year=1908|publisher=J. C. Hinrichs'sche Buchhandlung|location=Leipzig|page=53}}</ref> is a Greek minuscule manuscript of the New Testament, on parchment leaves. Palaeographically it has been assigned to the 12th century. The manuscript has complex contents.<ref name = Aland>K. Aland, M. Welte, B. Köster, K. Junack, "Kurzgefasste Liste der griechischen Handschriften des Neues Testaments", ''Walter de Gruyter'', Berlin, New York 1994, p. 54.</ref> It has full marginalia.
== Description ==
The codex contains a complete text of the four Gospels on 355 parchment leaves (size {{×|28.7|22.6}}).<ref name = Aland/> The text is written in one column per page, 18 lines of biblical text and 44 lines of commentary text per page.<ref name = Gregory>{{Cite book | last = Gregory | first = Caspar René | author-link = Caspar René Gregory | title = Textkritik des Neuen Testaments | publisher = J. C. Hinrichs | year = 1900 | location = Leipzig | volume = 1 | page = 156 | url = https://archive.org/stream/textkritikdesne00greggoog#page/n169/mode/2up }}</ref>
The text is divided according to the {{lang|grc|κεφαλαια}} (''chapters''), whose numbers are given at the margin, and the {{lang|grc|τιτλοι}} (''titles'') at the top of the pages. There is also a division according to the smaller Ammonian Sections (in Mark 233 – the last numbered section in 16:8), with references to the Eusebian Canons (written below Ammonian Section numbers).<ref name = Gregory/>
It contains the Eusebian Canon tables, prolegomena, tables of the {{lang|grc|κεφαλαια}} (''tables of contents'') are placed before each Gospel, Synaxarion, Menologion, pictures, scholia at the margin, Victor's commentary on Mark, and note on John 7:53, as in 145 and others.<ref name = Scrivener>{{Cite book | last = Scrivener | first = Frederick Henry Ambrose | author-link = Frederick Henry Ambrose Scrivener |author2=Edward Miller | title = A Plain Introduction to the Criticism of the New Testament | publisher = George Bell & Sons | year = 1894 | location = London | volume = 1 | edition = 4 | page = 212 }}</ref>
== Text ==
The Greek text of the codex is a representative of the Byzantine text-type. Aland placed it in Category V.<ref>{{Cite book | last = Aland | first = Kurt | author-link = Kurt Aland | last2 = Aland | first2 = Barbara | author-link2 = Barbara Aland | others = Erroll F. Rhodes (trans.) | title = The Text of the New Testament: An Introduction to the Critical Editions and to the Theory and Practice of Modern Textual Criticism | publisher = William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company | year = 1995 | location = Grand Rapids | page = [https://archive.org/details/textnewtestament00kurt/page/n160 138] | url = https://archive.org/details/textnewtestament00kurt | url-access = limited | isbn = 978-0-8028-4098-1}}</ref> According to the Claremont Profile Method it represents the textual family K<sup>x</sup> in Luke 1; in Luke 10 and Luke 20 no profile was made.<ref name = Wisse>{{Cite book | last = Wisse | first = Frederik | title = The Profile Method for the Classification and Evaluation of Manuscript Evidence, as Applied to the Continuous Greek Text of the Gospel of Luke | publisher = William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company | year = 1982 | location = Grand Rapids | page = [https://archive.org/details/profilemethodfor00wiss/page/55 55] | url = https://archive.org/details/profilemethodfor00wiss/page/55 | isbn = 0-8028-1918-4 | url-access = registration }}</ref>
The text of the Pericope Adulterae (John 8:3-11) is placed on the end of the fourth Gospel, on 355 folio.<ref name = Gregory/>
== History ==
The manuscript was written by Eustathius. In 1438 it was bought in Constantinople by Nicholas de Cuza, Eastern Legate to the Council of Ferrara, along with minuscule 87.<ref name = Gregory/> It was examined by Andreas Birch (about 1782). C. R. Gregory saw it in 1886.<ref name = Gregory/>
It is currently housed at the Vatican Library (Vat. gr. 358), at Rome.<ref name = Aland/>
== See also == * List of New Testament minuscules * Biblical manuscript * Textual criticism
== References ==
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== Further reading == * {{Cite book | last = Gregory | first = Caspar René | author-link = Caspar René Gregory | title = Textkritik des Neuen Testaments | publisher = J.C. Hinrichs'sche Buchhandlung | year = 1900 | location = Leipzig | volume = 1 | page = 156 | url = https://archive.org/stream/textkritikdesne00greggoog#page/n169/mode/2up }}
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