Minuscule 290

Minuscule 290 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), ε 512 (Soden), is a Greek minuscule paper manuscript of the New Testament. Paleographic analysis it has assigned it to the 14th century. It has marginalia.

Description
The codex contains a complete text of the four Gospels on 259 paper leaves ($$). The text is written in one column per page, in 22 lines per page.

The text is divided according to the κεφαλαια (chapters), whose numbers are given at the margin.

It contains Argumentum, lists of the κεφαλαια (lists of contents) before each Gospel with a harmony, lectionary markings at the margin, αναγνωσεις (lessons), Synaxarion, and subscriptions at the end of each Gospel, with numbers of stixoi and numbers of Verses.

Text
The Greek text of the codex is a representative of the Byzantine text-type. Hermann von Soden classified it to the textual family Kr. Aland placed it in Category V. According to the Claremont Profile Method it belongs to the textual family Kr in Luke 1 and Luke 20, and creates textual pair with 363.

History
Formerly the manuscript was held at Sorbonne. It was added to the list of New Testament manuscripts by Scholz (1794-1852). It was examined by Scholz. It was examined and described by Paulin Martin. C. R. Gregory saw the manuscript in 1885.

The manuscript is currently housed at the Bibliothèque nationale de France (Suppl. Gr. 108) at Paris.