Codex Ephesinus  Codex Ephesinus, minuscule 71 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), ε 253 (von Soden), is a Greek minuscule manuscript of the New Testament, on parchment, illuminated, and elegantly written. It is dated by the colophon to 1160. In the 15th century the manuscript was prepared for liturgical use. The scribal errors are not numerous, but it has many textual divergences from the common text. The Greek text of the codex is a representative of the Byzantine text-type, but the textual character of the codex is disputed by scholars since the 19th century. It has full marginalia with marks of the text's division, with liturgical notes and scholia. Only one leaf of the codex had lost. The manuscript was brought to England in 1675 by Philip Traherne, English Chaplain at Smyrna, who made first collation of its text. The collation was corrected by Scrivener in 1845. It was called "Codex Ephesinus", because of place of its origin. It is currently housed in the library of the Lambeth Palace (528), at London. The codex contains almost complete text of the four Gospels on 265 parchment leaves (size ). The leaves are arranged in small quarto. Only one leaf of the codex had lost, containing Matthew 14:13-15:16, before it was examined by Philip Traherne. The text is written in one column per page, 20-26 lines per page in an elegant minuscule letters. The large initial letters in red. The breathings (rough breathing, smooth breathing) and accents are given correctly, in spite of some not numerous but evident errors (e.g. αὑριον, ἐστη, ἀλωπηξ, ἀλεκτωρ, αποστελλῶ). The text is divided according to the ("chapters"), whose numbers are given at the margin, and their ("titles of chapters") at the top of the pages. There is also another division according to the smaller and more ancient Ammonian Sections (in Matthew 356, in Mark 234, in Luke 342, in John only 219 sections), with references to the Eusebian Canons (written below Ammonian Section numbers). It contains the Epistula ad Carpianum ("Epistle to Carpian") at the beginning of the codex, lists of the ("tables of contents") were placed before each Gospel in the 15th century, and slight illuminations before each Gospel.