Minuscule 215

The codex contains a complete text of the four Gospels, on 272 parchment leaves (size {{×|33|23.5}}), with a commentary. The text is written in one column per page, 24 lines per page (biblical text).{{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 = 168

| url = https://archive.org/stream/textkritikdesne00greggoog#page/n181/mode/2up

}} The commentary on Matthew is by Chrysostomos, that on Mark, Victorinus of Pettau, Luke, Titus of Bostra, that on John is by Chrysostomos.

The text is divided according to 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 237 sections, the last in 16:14), with references to the Eusebian Canons (written below Ammonian Section numbers).

It contains the Epistula ad Carpianum, the Eusebian tables, tables of the {{lang|grc|κεφαλαια}} (tables of contents) before each Gospel, lectionary markings at the margin for liturgical use, synaxaria, and pictures (later hand). It has the famous Jerusalem Colophon ("from the ancient manuscripts of Jerusalem").{{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

| page = 220

}}

The manuscript is a duplicate of the codex 20 and 300, as well in its text as in the subscriptions and commentary, being without any later corrections seen in codex 20.

The Greek text of the codex is a representative of the Byzantine text-type. Aland placed it in Category V.{{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}}

It was not examined by using Claremont Profile Method.{{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

}}

It was examined by Birch,Birch, [https://archive.org/details/variaelectiones00bircgoog Variae Lectiones ad Textum IV Evangeliorum], Haunie 1801, p. LXV Burgon, and Riccoboni. C. R. Gregory saw the manuscript in 1886.

It is currently housed at the Biblioteca Marciana (Gr. Z 544 (591)), at Venice.

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| 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 = 168

| url = https://archive.org/stream/textkritikdesne00greggoog#page/n181/mode/2up

}}

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Category:Greek New Testament minuscules

Category:11th-century biblical manuscripts