Minuscule 828
Minuscule 828 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), ε219 (von Soden), is a 12th-century Greek minuscule manuscript of the New Testament on parchment. The manuscript has survived in complete condition. It contains marginalia. Description. The codex contains the text of the four Gospels on 176 parchment leaves (size ). The text is written in two columns per page, 27 lines per page. The text is divided according to the ("chapters"), and according to the smaller Ammonian Sections (in Mark 234 sections, the last numbered section in 16:9). The numerals of the are given at the left margin, and their  ("titles") at the top of the pages. The Ammonian Sections are given with a references to the Eusebian Canons (written under Ammonian Sections). It contains the Eusebian Canon tables at the beginning, tables of the ("table of contents") before each Gospel, lectionary markings, Synaxarion (liturgical book with hagiographies), subscriptions at the end of each of the Gospels, numbers of remata, numbers of stichoi, and pictures. According to Scrivener the Eusebian Canon tables are beautiful. Text. The Greek text of the codex is a representative of the Caesarean text-type. Hermann von Soden classified it to the textual family I. According  to Kurt and Barbara Aland, it supports the Byzantine text 148 times against the original, the original 27 times against the Byzantine, and agrees 77 times with both texts; it has 64 independent or distinctive readings. The Aland's placed the manuscript in Category III. According to the Claremont Profile Method it represents textual family "f" in Luke 1, Luke 10, and Luke 20. It is fragmentary in Luke 10. In Matthew 9:35 it has the additional reading ἐν τῲ λαῷ καὶ πολλοὶ ἠκολούθησαν αὐτῷ "among the people, and many followed after Him". It lacks the text of , and the  text of the Pericope Adulterae (John 7:53-8:11). History. Gregory dated the manuscript to the 12th century, other palaeographers dated it to the 11th century. The manuscript is currently dated by the INTF to the 12th century. The manuscript was written in Calabria, possibly in Rhegium (?). The manuscript was examined and described by Antonio Rocci in 1882 and Kirsopp Lake. It was added to the list of New Testament manuscripts by Scrivener (626) and Gregory (828). Gregory saw it in 1886. Currently the manuscript is housed at the Biblioteca della Badia (A' α. 5), in Grottaferrata.