Minuscule 817

The codex contains the complete text of the four Gospels, on 255 paper leaves (size {{×|29|21}}).

The text is written in one column per page, 34–46 lines per page.{{Cite book

| last = Aland

| first = Kurt

| author-link = Kurt Aland

|author2=M. Welte |author3=B. Köster |author4=K. Junack

| title = Kurzgefasste Liste der griechischen Handschriften des Neues Testaments

| publisher = Walter de Gruyter

| year = 1994

| location = Berlin, New York

| page = 95

| isbn = 3-11-011986-2 }}{{Cite web |url=http://intf.uni-muenster.de/vmr/NTVMR/ListeHandschriften.php?ObjID=30817 |title=Liste Handschriften |publisher=Institute for New Testament Textual Research |access-date=16 November 2010|location=Münster}}

It contains Prolegomena, tables of the {{lang|grc|κεφαλαια}} (tables of contents) before each of the Gospels, and a commentary of Theophylact.{{Cite book

| last = Gregory

| first = Caspar René

| author-link = Caspar René Gregory

| title = Textkritik des Neuen Testaments

| publisher = J.C. inrichs

| year = 1900

| location = Leipzig

| volume = 1

| page = 224

| url = https://archive.org/stream/textkritikdesne00greggoog#page/n237/mode/2up

}}

The Greek text of the codex is a representative of the Byzantine text-type. Aland did not place it in any category.{{Cite book

| last1 = Aland

| first1 = Kurt

| author-link1 = 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/n161 139]

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

| url-access = limited

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

It was not examined according to the 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/66 66]

| url = https://archive.org/details/profilemethodfor00wiss/page/66

| isbn = 0-8028-1918-4

| url-access = registration

}}

It lacks the Pericope Adulterae (John 7:53–8:11).

In John 1:45 it reads Ιησουν τον υιον Ιωσηφ (Jesus, son of Joseph) along with manuscripts: Alexandrinus, Cyprius, Campianus, Macedoniensis, Sangallensis, Petropolitanus, Uncial 047, 7, 8, 196, 461, 1514, 1519; majority of the manuscripts read Ιησουν τον υιον του Ιωσηφ;The Gospel According to John in the Byzantine Tradition (Deutsche Bibelgesellschaft: Stuttgart 2007), p. 11

In John 4:51 it reads υιος (son) for παις (servant), the reading of the codex is supported by Codex Bezae, Cyprius, Petropolitanus Purpureus, Petropolitanus, Nanianus, 0141, 33, 194, 196, 743, 892, 1192, 1216, 1241.The Gospel According to John in the Byzantine Tradition (Deutsche Bibelgesellschaft: Stuttgart 2007), p. 42

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The manuscript was dated by Gregory to the 15th century. The manuscript is currently dated by the INTF to the 15th century.

The early story of the manuscript and its provenance is unknown. It was held at the Dominican monastery in Basel in the beginning of the 16th century. Since 1559 it was held at the University of Basel.

Desiderius Erasmus received this codex from the Dominican friars in Basel, and used it for the first edition of his Novum Instrumentum omne (1516).{{citation | first = William W | last = Combs | url = http://www.dbts.edu/journals/1996_1/ERASMUS.PDF | title = Erasmus and the textus receptus | journal = DBSJ | number = 1 | date = Spring 1996 | page = 45 | url-status = dead | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20070927081642/http://www.dbts.edu/journals/1996_1/ERASMUS.PDF | archive-date = 2007-09-27 }}. Robert Estienne did not use this manuscript in his Editio Regia (1550), but his edition was based on the Erasman text. As a result, some of its readings appear in the Textus Receptus.{{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

| edition = 4

| location = London

| volume = 2

| pages = 189–90

}}

It was added to the list of New Testament manuscripts by Gregory (817^e). Gregory saw it in 1885.

The manuscript is now housed at the Basel University Library with the shelf number A. N. III, 15.

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| 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 = 224

| url = https://archive.org/stream/textkritikdesne00greggoog#page/n237/mode/2up

}}

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Category:Greek New Testament minuscules

Category:15th-century biblical manuscripts