Minuscule 227 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), ε 382 (Soden),^[1] is a Greek minuscule manuscript of the New Testament, on parchment. Paleographically it has been assigned to the 13th century.^[2] It has marginalia.

The codex contains a complete text of the four Gospels, on 158 parchment leaves (size 24 cm by 19.3 cm).^[2] The leaves are arranged in quarto (four leaves in quire).^[3] The text is written in one column per page, 27 lines per page.^[2] Some leaves were dislocated by binder.^[4]

The text is divided according to the Ammonian Sections, whose numbers are given at the margin, but references to the Eusebian Canons are absent.^[4]

It contains Prolegomena to the four Gospels, tables of the κεφαλαια (tables of contents) before each Gospel, pictures. Many corrections were made by a later hand, which dates 1308.^[5][4] It contains portraits of the four Evangelists.^[3]

The Greek text of the codex is a representative of the Byzantine text-type. Hermann von Soden classified it to the K¹.^[6] Aland placed it in Category V.^[7]

According to the Claremont Profile Method it represents textual family Kx in Luke 1 and Luke 20. In Luke 10 no profile was made. It belongs to the textual cluster Ω.^[6]

A later hand, which dates from 1308, has been making corrections.^[5]

The manuscript belonged to Pedro Hurtado de Mendoza (1578–1651),^[8][4] along with minuscule 819.

It was described by Daniel Gotthilf Moldenhawer, who collated it about 1783 for Birch (Esc. 5).^[5] It was shortly described by Emmanuel Miller in 1848.^[3]

It is currently housed at the Escurial (Cod. Escurialensis, X. III. 15).^[2]

• List of New Testament minuscules
• Biblical manuscript
• Textual criticism

• Emmanuel Miller, Catalogue des manuscrits grecs de la bibliothèque de l'Escurial (Paris 1848), p. 399.
• Gregory, Caspar René (1900). Textkritik des Neuen Testaments. Vol. 1. Leipzig: J.C. Hinrichs'sche Buchhandlung. p. 169.