Minuscule 116
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New Testament manuscript |
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Decorated Canon table on folio 10
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| Name | Codex Harleian. 5567 |
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| Sign | Eusebian tables |
| Text | Gospels |
| Date | 12th century |
| Script | Greek |
| Now at | British Library |
| Size | 16.6 cm by 13.1 cm |
| Type | Byzantine text-type |
| Note | marginalia |
Minuscule 116 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), ε 249 (Soden), is a Greek minuscule manuscript of the New Testament, on parchment leaves. Palaeographically it has been assigned to the 12th century. It has complex contents with some marginalia.
The codex contains a complete text of the four Gospels on 300 parchment leaves (size 16.6 cm by 13.1 cm), 4 unfoliated paper leaves at the beginning, and 3 at the end. The text is written in one column per page, in 23 lines per page. The large initial letters are written in gold and colours. The headpieces with geometric and foliate decoration in gold and colours (folios 15r, 93r, 145r, 229r). The end of John is written in cruciform.
The text is divided according to the κεφαλαια (chapters), whose numbers are given at the margin, and their τιτλοι (titles of chapters) at the top of the pages. There is also another division according to the smaller Ammonian Sections (in Mark 241 sections – the last numbered section ends in 16:20). It has no references to the Eusebian Canons.
It contains the Eusebian Canon tables with geometric decorations in gold and colour (on folios 9-13), tables of the κεφαλαια (tables of contents) before each Gospel, αναγνωσεις (lessons), numbers of στιχοι, and synaxaria. The Menologion was added in the 13th century (folios 1-8, 291-296v). The initial letters in colours. Scholia are written in red or purple.
There is an inscription on folio 1 'Bernard Mould Smyrna 1724'.
The Greek text of the codex is a representative of the Byzantine text-type. Kurt Aland placed it in Category V.
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