Minuscule 579
Minuscule 579 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), ε 376 (von Soden), is a Greek minuscule manuscript of the New Testament, on parchment leaves. It has been palaeographically assigned to the 13th century. It was formerly labelled as 80 (Scrivener). The manuscript is lacunose. Description. The codex contains the near-complete text of the four Gospels, with some lacunae (Mark 3:28-4:8, and John 20:15-21:25) on 152 leaves (size 23.3 cm by 16.2 cm). The text is written in one column per page, 28-39 lines per page. Words are written continuously without any separation, but includes accents  and breathings. It contains lists of the ("tables of contents") before each Gospel, numbers of the ("chapters") in the margin, and the ("titles") at the top of the pages. It has the Ammonian sections (in Mark 233 Sections, up to ), but no references to the Eusebian Canons. The Old Testament quotations are rarely indicated. It has the same system of chapter divisions as found in Codex Vaticanus (B) and Codex Zacynthius (Ξ). The text of ("Signs of the Times") is placed after verse 9. It has two endings to the Gospel of Mark (as in codices Ψ, 099, 0112, 274 , and ℓ "1602"). It lacks the text of Luke 22:43-44 and Luke 23:34. Text. The Greek text of the codex is a representative of the Alexandrian text-type in Mark and Luke. Aland placed it in Category II in Mark and Luke. The relationship between the text of minusscule 579 in Luke and the Alexandrian text-type was confirmed by the Claremont Profile Method, though in Luke 10 and Luke 20 it is a weak representative of this text-type. In Matthew its text belongs to the late Byzantine group. In John 8:6 it inserts after along with Codex  Cyprius (K). History. The manuscript once belonged to Johannes Georg Graeve, and was collated by Anthony Bynaeus in 1691 (as minuscule 80). It passed into the hands of J. van der Hagen, who showed it to Johann Jakob Wettstein in 1739. It was bought by Ambrose Didot and sold to Mons. Lesoef. The manuscript was examined and described by Paulin Martin. C. R. Gregory saw the manuscript in 1884. It is currently housed in at the National Library of France (Gr. 97), at Paris.