Minuscule 204 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), δ 357 (Soden),[1] is a Greek minuscule manuscript of the New Testament, on parchment. Paleographically it has been assigned to the 13th century.[2]
The codex contains the text of the New Testament (except Book of Revelation) on 443 parchment leaves (size).[2] The order of books: Gospels, Acts of the Apostles, Catholic epistles, Pauline epistles. The text is written in one column per page, in 25 lines per page.[3]
It has no the Epistula ad Carpianum. The text is divided according to the Greek, Ancient (to 1453);: κεφαλαια (chapters), whose numbers are given at the margin, and the τιλοι (titles of chapters) at the top of the pages. There are no a division according to the Ammonian Sections.[4]
It contains Prolegomena, Eusebian Canon tables, synaxaria, numbered Greek, Ancient (to 1453);: αναγνωσεις (lessons), lectionary equipment at the margin, Menologion, subscriptions at the end of each book, numbers of stichoi, pictures, and the Euthalian Apparatus.[3]
The Greek text of the codex is a representative of the Byzantine text-type. Hermann von Soden classified it to the textual family Kx. Aland placed it in Category V.[5] According to the Claremont Profile Method it belongs to the textual family Kr in Luke 1 and Luke 20. In Luke 10 no profile was made. It belongs to the subgroup 35.[6]
Formerly the manuscript belonged to the monastery S. Salvator in Bologna.[3]
It was examined by Birch, Scholz, Dean Burgon, and Oscar von Gebhardt. C. R. Gregory saw it in 1886.[3]
Since 1867 it is housed at the Bologna University (2775), at Bologna.[2]