Minuscule 167


Minuscule 167, ε 305, is a Greek minuscule manuscript of the New Testament, on parchment. Palaeographically it has been assigned to the 13th century. It has marginalia.

Description

The codex contains a complete text of the four Gospels on 264 parchment leaves. The text is written in one column per page, in 25 lines per page. The initial letters in gold, the ink is brown.
The text is divided according to the κεφαλαια, whose numbers are given at the margin, and the τιτλοι at the top of the pages.
It contains lists of the κεφαλαια before each Gospel, subscriptions at the end of each Gospel, and pictures.
The Pericope Adulterae is marked by an obelus.

Text

The Greek text of the codex is a representative of the Byzantine text-type. Hermann von Soden classified it to the textual family Kr. Aland placed it in Category V.
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 creates textual cluster 167.

History

It was examined by Birch and Scholz. C. R. Gregory saw it in 1886.
It is currently housed at the Vatican Library, at Rome.