Minuscule 701

Minuscule 701 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering of New Testament manuscripts), ε1405 (in the von Soden numbering of New Testament manuscripts), is a Greek minuscule manuscript of the New Testament, written on parchment. Using the study of comparative writing styles (palaeography), it has been assigned to the 14th century. The manuscript has complex contents. Biblical scholar Frederick H. A. Scrivener labelled it by 523$$.

Description
The manuscript is a codex (precursor to the modern book) containing the text of the New Testament on 170 parchment leaves (size $e$) The text is written in one column per page, 22 lines per page. The text of Matthew 23:1-20 was supplied by a later hand.

The text is divided according to the κεφαλαια (chapters), which numbers are given at the margin; the τιτλοι (titles of chapters) are given at the top and bottom. There is also a division according to the Ammonian Sections, with references to the Eusebian Canons.

It contains Prolegomena, the tables of the κεφαλαια (tables of contents) before each Gospel, lectionary markings at the margin, incipits, Synaxarion, Menologion, and "barbarous pictures".

Text
Kurt Aland did not place the Greek text of the codex in any Category.

It was not examined by using the Claremont Profile Method.

History
Scrivener dated the manuscript to the 13th century, Gregory dated the manuscript to the 14th century. Currently the manuscript is dated by the INTF to the 14th century.

The manuscript once belonged to the Metropolitan Church in Heraclea near Propontis. Thomas Payne, chaplain in the British embassy in Constantinople, presented the manuscript to Charles Herzog, Duke of Marlborough, in 1738. It was held in Belsheim 3.B.14, and in the family of White in London, Gregory saw it in 1883.

It was added to the list of New Testament manuscript by Scrivener (523) and Gregory (701).

It was examined and described by Dean Burgon.

Currently, both the owner of the manuscript and its location are unknown.