Minuscule 14

The codex contains the text of the four Gospels with some lacunae (Matthew 1:1-9; 3:16-4:9). The leaves are arranged in octavo. Some leaves are in disorder.{{r|Gregory}}

The text is written in one column per page, 17 lines per page.{{r|Aland}}{{Cite web | url = http://ntvmr.uni-muenster.de/liste | title = Liste Handschriften | publisher = Institute for New Testament Textual Research | access-date = 2014-01-31 | location = Münster | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20180220015104/http://ntvmr.uni-muenster.de/liste | archive-date = 2018-02-20 | url-status = dead }} It is written in beautiful, and round minuscule letters, the initial letters are in gold and colour.{{r|Gregory}} It has regular breathings and accents.

The text is divided into the {{lang|grc|κεφαλαια}} (chapters), whose numbers are given at the margin, and their {{lang|grc|τιτλοι}} (titles of chapters) at the top of the pages. There is also a division according to the Ammonian Sections (in Mark 233 Sections), whose numbers are given at the margin with references to the Eusebian Canons (written below Ammonian Section numbers).{{r|Gregory}}

It contains Paschal Canon, the Epistula ad Carpianum, the Eusebian Canon tables, tables of the {{lang|grc|κεφαλαια}} (tables of contents) before each Gospel, and synaxaria.{{r|Scrivener}}{{Cite book

| last = Gregory

| first = Caspar René

| author-link = Caspar René Gregory

| title = Textkritik des Neuen Testamentes

| publisher = J.C. Hinrichs’sche Buchhandlung

| year = 1900

| location = Leipzig

| volume = 1

| page = 131

| url = https://archive.org/stream/textkritikdesne00greggoog#page/n143/mode/2up

}}

It has a colophon with the date A.D. 964. Before the discovery of the Uspenski Gospels it was the oldest known dated minuscule.{{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

| volume = 1

| pages = 192–193

}}

The texts of Matt 1:1-9; 3:16-4:9 were supplied by a later hand in the 15th century.

The Greek text of the codex is a representative of the Byzantine text-type.C. v. Tischendorf, [https://archive.org/stream/novumtestamentu00tiscgoog#page/n218/mode/2up Novum Testamentum Graece. Editio Septima], Lipsiae 1859, p. CXCV. Hermann von Soden classified it to the textual family K^x. Aland placed it in Category V.{{Cite book

| last1 = Aland

| first1 = 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}}

According to the Claremont Profile Method it belongs to the textual family K^x in Luke 1 and Luke 20. In Luke 10 no profile was made.{{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/53 53]

| url = https://archive.org/details/profilemethodfor00wiss/page/53

| isbn = 0-8028-1918-4

| url-access = registration

}}

The spurious text of the Pericope Adulterae is marked by an asterisk.

According to the colophon the manuscript was εγραφθη νικηφορου βασιλευοντος ινδ,J. M. A. Scholz, Biblisch-kritische Reise in Frankreich, der Schweiz, Italien, Palästine und im Archipel in den Jahren 1818, 1819, 1820, 1821: Nebst einer Geschichte des Textes des Neuen Testaments (Leipzig, 1823), p. 4 which means 964 AD.{{r|Gregory}}

It was in private hands and belonged to Cardinal Mazarin (along with minuscule 305, 311, 313, and 324). It became a part of collection of Kuster (Paris 7). It was examined and described by Bernard de Montfaucon, Wettstein,{{cite book |last=Wettstein |first=Johann Jakob |author-link=Johann Jakob Wettstein|title=Novum Testamentum Graecum editionis receptae cum lectionibus variantibus codicum manuscripts |url=https://archive.org/stream/hekainediatheken00clem#page/46/mode/2up |access-date=November 14, 2010 |volume=1 |year=1751 |publisher=Ex Officina Dommeriana |location=Amsterdam |language=la |page=47}} Scholz, and Burgon. Scholz collated Matthew 7-21; Mark 1-6; Luke 3-4; 9; 11; John 3-9.{{r|Gregory}} C. R. Gregory saw the manuscript in 1884.{{r|Gregory}}

The codex now is located at the National Library of France (Gr. 70) at Paris.{{r|Aland|INTF}}

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• List of New Testament minuscules
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{{Reflist}}

• Bernard de Montfaucon, [https://books.google.com/books?id=zHAsAAAAYAAJ Paleographia Graeca] (Paris, 1708), p. 282, no. V

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