Codex Campianus

Uncial 021

New Testament manuscript papyri uncials minuscules lectionaries
Folio 91 recto, beginning of Mark, in the right margin liturgical note added: κυριακή προ των φώτων, on Sunday before Epiphany
Name	Campianus
Sign	M
Text	Gospels
Date	9th century
Script	Greek
Now at	Bibliothèque nationale de France, Gr. 48
Size	22 cm by 16.3 cm
Type	Byzantine text-type
Category	V
Hand	elegantly written
Note	Marginalia

Codex Campianus is designated as "M" or "021" in the Gregory-Aland cataloging system and as "ε 72" in the Von Soden system. It is a Greek uncial manuscript of the New Testament, dated palaeographically to the 9th century. The manuscript has complex contents. It has marginalia and was prepared for liturgical (religious) use.

The text of the manuscript was held in high esteem by some 19th-century scholars, but this general opinion changed in the 20th century; as a result the manuscript is rarely cited in critical editions of the Greek New Testament.

The codex contains a complete text of the four Gospels, on 257 parchment leaves each approximately 22 cm by 16.3 cm. The leaves are arranged in quarto and the text is written in two columns per page, 24 lines per column, in very elegant and small uncial letters, with breathings and accents (in red). The letters are similar to those from Codex Mosquensis II.

The liturgical notes at the margin are written in minuscule letters. According to the biblical scholar Tischendorf the handwriting of the liturgical notes at the margin is very similar to the Oxforder manuscript of Plato dated to the year 895 and housed at the Bodleian Library.

Codex Campianus has a number of errors due to contemporary changes in the pronunciation of Greek, a phenomenon known as iotacism. It has errors of N ephelkystikon.

The text of the Gospels is divided according to the Ammonian Sections. It has Harmony of the Gospels written at the bottom.

It is a small manuscript. Besides the New Testament text, it contains Chronology of the Gospels, Epistula ad Carpianum, Eusebian Canon tables, liturgical books with hagiographies (Synaxarion and Menologion), αναγνωσματα (notes of the Church Lessons), musical notes in red, some Arabic text on the last leaf, and a note in Slavonic. The Arabic note is illegible except one word "Jerusalem". Some notes are written in very small letters.