Minuscule 569 (Gregory-Aland)

Minuscule 569

New Testament manuscript papyri uncials minuscules lectionaries
Portrait of Matthew Evangelist and the first page of the Gospel of Matthew
Text	Gospels
Date	1061
Script	Greek
Now at	Russian National Library
Size	26.2 cm by 19.3 cm
Type	Byzantine / mixed
Category	none

Minuscule 569 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), A ¹⁵¹ (in the Soden's numbering), is a Greek minuscule illuminated manuscript Gospel book, on parchment. It is dated by a Colophon to the year 1061. It was labelled by Scrivener as 475. The manuscript has complex contents.

The codex contains a complete text of the four Gospels on 358 parchment leaves measuring 26.2 cm × 19.3 cm (10.3 in × 7.6 in). The writing is in one column per page, 14 lines per page for text and 51 lines with a commentary. It contains breathings, sign of interrogative, abbreviations are frequent; the iota adscript occurs (e.g. article τῶι for τῷ), it has iotacistic errors; avoid hiatus (e.g. ἐγέννησε τὸν).

Some initial letters are in gold or colour. It contains ornamented canon tables, tables of the κεφαλαια are placed before every Gospel, numerals of the κεφαλαια are given at the margin, the τιτλοι at the top, "hypothesis" (explanatory of using of the Eusebian Canons), στιχοι, Prolegomena, lectionary markings, Synaxarion, Menologion, four Evangelist portraits, and decorative head-pieces (in four colours). The biblical text is surrounded by a patristic commentary (catena); in the Gospel of Mark it is a commentary by Victorinus of Pettau. There is additional material from Epiphanius.