{{New Testament manuscript infobox | form = Minuscule | number = '''207''' | image = | isize = | caption= | name = | sign = | text = Gospels | script = Greek | date = 11th century | found = | now at = Biblioteca Marciana | cite = | size = {{×|27.6|21.3}} | type = Byzantine | cat = V | hand = | note = marginalia }}

'''Minuscule 207''' (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), ε 126 (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/n65/mode/2up|year=1908|publisher=J. C. Hinrichs'sche Buchhandlung|location=Leipzig|page=55}}</ref> is a Greek minuscule manuscript of the New Testament, on parchment. Palaeographically it has been assigned to the 11th century.<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. 59.</ref> The manuscript is lacunose. It has marginalia.

== Description ==

The codex contains the text of the four Gospels on 267 parchment leaves (size {{×|27.6|21.3}}),<ref name = Aland/> with some lacunae (Matthew 1:1-13; Mark 1:1-11 - for the sake of illuminations). It is written in two columns per page, in 22 lines 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 = 167 | url = https://archive.org/stream/textkritikdesne00greggoog#page/n179/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 of chapters'') at the top of the pages. There is also a division according to the Ammonian Sections (in Mark 241 sections), (no references to the Eusebian Canons).<ref name = Gregory/>

It contains Prolegomena to the four Gospels, Epistula ad Carpianum, pictures, tables of the {{lang|grc|κεφαλαια}} (''tables of contents'') before each Gospel, synaxaria, and Menologion.<ref name = Gregory/><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 | edition = 4 | page = 220 | volume = 1 }}</ref>

== Text ==

The Greek text of the codex is a representative of the Byzantine text-type. Hermann von Soden classified it as a member of the textual family K<sup>x</sup>.<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/57 57] | url = https://archive.org/details/profilemethodfor00wiss/page/57 | isbn = 0-8028-1918-4 | url-access = registration }}</ref> 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 = 138 | 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 and Luke 20. In Luke 10 no profile was made.<ref name = Wisse/>

The text of the Pericope Adulterae (John 7:53-8:11) is placed at the end of the Gospel of John.<ref name = Gregory/>

== History ==

The manuscript once belonged to Basilios Bessarion.<ref name = Gregory/> According to the inscription it once belonged to A. F. R.<ref name = Scrivener/>

The manuscript was examined by Birch and Burgon. C. R. Gregory saw it in 1886.<ref name = Gregory/>

It is currently housed at the Biblioteca Marciana (Gr. Z 8), at Venice.<ref name = Aland/>

== See also ==

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

== References ==

{{Reflist}}

== Further reading ==

* L. Politis, ''Paléographie et litérature Byzantine et néo-grecque'' VI (1975), p.&nbsp;23.

{{DEFAULTSORT:Minuscule 0207}} Category:Greek New Testament minuscules Category:11th-century biblical manuscripts