Minuscule 24

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Minuscule 24 is a 10th‑century Greek manuscript of parts of the New Testament, written on vellum and now kept at the Bibliothèque nationale de France (Gr. 178) in Paris. It contains the Gospels of Matthew and Mark on 240 parchment leaves, with gaps in Matthew 27:20–Mark 4:22. The text is in one column per page, with 25 lines of biblical text and 58 lines of commentary per page. The initials are red and the main ink is brown. In Mark, the text is surrounded by a catena (a chain of commentaries) attributed to Victorinus.

The manuscript is divided according to chapters (κεφαλαια) with numbers in the margins and titles (τιτλοι) at the top. In Mark there is also division into Ammonian Sections (234 sections, last at 16:9) with references to the Eusebian Canons. It includes Prolegomena and a table of contents for Mark, and a later hand added a Synaxarion (a liturgical calendar of saints).

The Greek text represents the Byzantine text-type and is categorized as Aland’s Category V. The INTF dates it to the 10th century. It has been studied by scholars such as Griesbach, Scholz, Cramer (for the Mark catena), Omont, and Martin; Gregory examined it in 1885. Wettstein added it to the list of New Testament manuscripts, giving it the number 24.