Minuscule 163


Minuscule 163, ε 114, is a Greek minuscule manuscript of the New Testament, on parchment. It is dated by its colophon to the year 1193. It has complex contents and full marginalia.

Description

The codex contains a complete text of the four Gospels on 173 thick parchment leaves. The text is written in two columns per page, in 33 lines per page, ink is black.
The text is divided according to the κεφαλαια, whose numbers are given at the margin,. There is also a division according to the Ammonian Sections, with references to the Eusebian Canons.
It contains the Eusebian tables, tables of the κεφαλαια are placed before each Gospel, lectionary markings at the margin for liturgical use, incipits, synaxaria, Menologion, subscriptions at the end of each Gospel, with numbers of ρηματα, and numbers of στιχοι, and pictures.

Text

the Greek text of the codex did not place in any Category.
According to the Claremont Profile Method it creates textual cluster 163 and textual pair with 345.

History

It was written in Syria, in 1193.
It was examined by Birch and Scholz. Scholz ascribed it as "solumnodo pericopas in ecclesia legi sotitas". C. R. Gregory saw it in 1886.
It is currently housed at the Vatican Library, at Rome.