Minuscule 307

The codex contains the text of the Acts of the Apostles and Catholic epistles on 254 parchment leaves ({{×|32|23.5}}). The text is written in one column per page. The biblical text is surrounded by a catena.{{Cite book

| last = Gregory

| first = Caspar René

| author-link = Caspar René Gregory

| title = Textkritik des Neuen Testaments

| publisher = Hinrichs

| year = 1900

| location = Leipzig

| volume = 1

| page = 264

| url = https://archive.org/stream/textkritikdesne00greggoog#page/n277/mode/2up

}}

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.

It contains Prolegomena, tables of the {{lang|grc|κεφαλαια}} (tables of contents) before each book, and subscriptions at the end of each sacred book, with numbers of stichoi.

The Greek text of the codex Aland placed it in Category III.{{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 = [https://archive.org/details/textnewtestament00kurt/page/n154 132]

| url = https://archive.org/details/textnewtestament00kurt

| url-access = limited

| isbn = 978-0-8028-4098-1}}

Aland's Profile in Acts: 35¹ 20^1/2 32² 19^S; in Cath: 62¹ 8^1/2 17² 15^S.

In Acts 8:39 instead of πνεῦμα κυρίου (spirit of the Lord) it has unusual textual variant {{lang|grc|πνεῦμα ἅγιον ἐπέπεσεν ἐπὶ τὸν εὐνοῦχον, ἄγγελος δέ κυρίου ἥρπασεν τὸν Φίλιππον}} (the Holy Spirit fell on the eunuch, and an angel of the Lord caught up Philip) supported by Codex Alexandrinus and several minuscule manuscripts: 94, 103, 322, 323, 385, 453, 467, 945, 1739, 1765, 1891, 2298, 36^a, it^p, vg, syr^h.Nestle-Aland, Novum Testamentum Graece, 26th edition, p. 345; Bruce M. Metzger, A Textual Commentary on the Greek New Testament (Deutsche Bibelgesellschaft: Stuttgart 2001), p. 316.

In Acts 18:17 it reads παντες οι Ιουδαιοι for παντες; the reading is supported by minuscule 431.UBS3, p. 489

In Acts 12:18 it reads μεγας for ουκ ολιγος, the reading is supported by 94, 431, 1175, 2818, cop^sa, arm.UBS3, p. 463.

The manuscript was examined by Montfaucon, Wettstein, and Cramer. It was examined and described by Paulin Martin.Jean-Pierre-Paul Martin, Description technique des manuscrits grecs relatifs au Nouveau Testament, conservés dans les bibliothèques de Paris (Paris 1883), p. 108 C. R. Gregory saw the manuscript in 1885.

Formerly it was designated by 15^a. In 1908 Gregory gave number 307 for it.

The manuscript is currently housed at the Bibliothèque nationale de France (Fonds Coislin, Gr. 25) at Paris.

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• J. A. Cramer, Catenae, Oxford, vol 3 (1838), pp. IV-XI, 425–451.

• [http://www.skypoint.com/members/waltzmn/Manuscripts1-500.html#m307 Minuscule 307] at the Encyclopedia of Textual Criticism

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