Minuscule 165


Minuscule 165, ε 1320, is a Greek-Latin minuscule manuscript of the New Testament, on parchment. It is dated by its colophon to the year 1292. It has complex contents. It has marginalia.

Description

The codex contains a complete text of the four Gospels on 214 thick parchment leaves. The text is written in two columns per page, in 33 lines per page.
The text is divided according to the κεφαλαια, whose numbers are given at the margin, and their τιτλοι at the top of the page. There is also another division according to the smaller Ammonian Sections, with references to the Eusebian Canons.
It contains the Epistula ad Carpianum, the Eusebian Canon tables at the beginning, tables of the κεφαλαια before each Gospel, and Synaxarion.

Text

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 did not place it in any Category.
According to the Claremont Profile Method it represents textual family Kx in Luke 10. In Luke 1 and Luke 20 it has mixture of the Byzantine text-families. It creates textual pair with Minuscule 176, related to the group 22.
The Pericope Adulterae is marked by an obelus as doubtful.

History

The manuscript was probably written in Calabria. The subscription states that it was written by Romanus for one Archbishop Paul, and given to the Library by Eugenia, daughter of John Pontanus.
It was examined by Birch, Scholz, Victor Gardthausen. C. R. Gregory saw it in 1886.
It is currently housed at the Vatican Library, at Rome.