Minuscule 183


Minuscule 183, ε 221, is a Greek minuscule manuscript of the New Testament, on parchment. Paleographically it has been assigned to the 12th century. It has marginalia.

Description

The codex contains a complete text of the four Gospels on 349 parchment leaves. The text is written in one column per page, in 24 lines per page, in dark-brown ink, the large initial letters in gold, small initial letters in red.
The text is divided according to the κεφαλαια, whose numbers are given at the margin, with their τιτλοι at the top. There is also a division according to the smaller Ammonian Sections, with references to the Eusebian Canons.
It contains Eusebian Canon tables, tables of the κεφαλαια before each Gospel, αναγνωσεις, pictures, synaxaria, and Menologion.

Text

The Greek text of the codex is a representative of the Byzantine text-type. Aland placed it in Category V.
Hermann von Soden included it to the textual family Kx. According to the Claremont Profile Method it represents textual family Kx in Luke 1 and Luke 20. It creates textual cluster 183. In Luke 10 no profile was made.
It creates textual cluster with minuscule 793.

History

It is dated by the INTF to the 12th century.
It was examined by Birch, Scholz, and Burgon. C. R. Gregory saw the manuscript in 1886.
It is currently housed at the Laurentian Library, at Florence.