Minuscule 686

Minuscule 686 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), Θε34 (von Soden), is a Greek minuscule manuscript of the New Testament, on parchment. It is dated by a colophon to the year 1337. Some leaves of the manuscript were lost. Scrivener labelled it by 573e.
Description.
The codex contains the text of the four Gospels, on 226 parchment leaves (size ), with only two lacunae (Matthew 1:1-6:18; Luke 24:47-53). The text is written in one column per page, 29 lines per page.
The breathings and accents are remarkable incorrect.
It contains the Epistula ad Carpianum, the Eusebian tables, tables of the ("contents") are placed before each Gospel, numbers of the ("chapters") are given at the left margin, the ("titles") at the top, the Ammonian Sections, without a references to the Eusebian Canons, subscriptions at the end of each of the Gospels of Matthew and Mark (Jerusalem Colophon), numbered stichoi, Synaxarion, and Menologion.
According to Scrivener the manuscript is "coarsely written on thick vellum".
Text.
The Greek text of the codex is a representative of the Byzantine text-type. Kurt Aland placed it in Category V.
According to the Claremont Profile Method it creates textual cluster 686, along with the manuscripts 716 (Luke 20), 748, 1198 (Luke 1 and 10), and 2693 (Luke 1). The cluster has following profile (the word before the bracket is the reading of the UBS edition):
History.
According to the colophon the manuscript was written by monk Gregorius in 1337. It was bought by John Jackson on Conant in Fleet Street, in 1777, for five guineas.
It was added to the list of New Testament manuscript by Scrivener (573) and Gregory (686).
The manuscript is currently housed at the British Library (Add MS 5468), in London.