Minuscule 330

Minuscule 330

New Testament manuscript papyri uncials minuscules lectionaries
Folios 116v-117r of the codex; John the Evangelist on folio 116v and the first page of the Gospel of John, with the decorated headpiece
Text	New Testament (except Rev.)
Date	12th century
Script	Greek
Now at	National Library of Russia
Size	24 cm by 18.6 cm
Type	Byzantine text-type
Category	V, III
Note	close to the codex 451

Minuscule 330 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), δ 259 (Soden), is a Greek minuscule manuscript of the New Testament, on parchment. Palaeographically it has been assigned to the 12th century. It has marginalia. The Greek text of the codex is a representative of the Byzantine text-type.

The codex contains the text of the New Testament (except Book of Revelation) on 287 parchment leaves (24 cm by 18.6 cm) with lacunae. The text is written in one column per page, the biblical text in 30 lines per page. There are three ornamental initials and four ornamental head-pieces (leaves 11, 51, 77, 117). It contains 10 pictures, four of them are given on full page, they are portraits of the Evangelists (folios 10v, 76v, 116v, 116v); portrait of John the Evangelist with the pupil St Prokhor. The head-piece to the Gospel of John contains the incorporated medallion bearing a half-length image of Jesus Christ. The initial letter epsilon at the beginning of John contains a figure of John the Evangelist.

There is no sign of interrogative, the nomina sacra are written in an abbreviated forms, the errors of itacism are frequent (e.g. παραδειγματησαι).

The text is divided according to the κεφαλαια (chapters), whose numbers are given at the margin. There is also a division according to the smaller Ammonian Sections, with references to the Eusebian Canons (written below Ammonian Section numbers).