Minuscule 701

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Minuscule 701 is a Greek minuscule manuscript of the New Testament written on parchment. It is numbered 701 in Gregory-Aland and ε1405 in von Soden. Based on handwriting analysis (palaeography), it is dated to the 14th century.

The codex contains the text of the New Testament on 170 parchment leaves, each measuring about 19 by 16 cm. The text is written in one column per page with 22 lines per page. The passage of Matthew 23:1-20 was added later by a different hand.

The manuscript uses chapter divisions (kephalaia) with numbers in the margins and titles (titloi) at the top and bottom of pages. It also uses the Ammonian Sections with references to the Eusebian Canons. It includes Prolegomena, tables of contents (kephalaia) before each Gospel, lectionary markings in the margins, incipits, a Synaxarion, a Menologion, and some “barbarous pictures.”

Aland did not place the Greek text of this codex in any of his categories, and it has not been studied with the Claremont Profile Method. Historically, it belonged to the Metropolitan Church in Heraclea near Propontis, then was given to Charles, Duke of Marlborough, in 1738 by Thomas Payne. It later appeared in Belsheim 3.B.14 and with the White family in London. Gregory saw the manuscript in 1883. It was listed in Scrivener’s and Gregory’s catalogs (as 523e and 701, respectively) and was described by Burgon. Scrivener dated it to the 13th century, while Gregory dated it to the 14th century; the current INTF dating also places it in the 14th century. The present location and owner of the manuscript are unknown.