Minuscule 198


Minuscule 198, ε 311, is a Greek minuscule manuscript of the New Testament, on cotton paper. Palaeographically it has been assigned to the 13th century. It has full marginalia.

Description

The codex contains a complete text of the four Gospels on 171 cotton paper leaves. The text is written in one column per page, in 29 lines per page. The first leaf was supplied by later hand. The paper is brown, ink is brown.
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 Epistula ad Carpianum, the Eusebian Canon tables, tables of the κεφαλαια before each Gospel, lectionary markings at the margin, incipits,, and subscriptions at the end of each Gospel.

Text

The Greek text of the codex is a representative of the Byzantine text-type. Aland placed it in Category V.

History

Formerly the manuscript belonged to the Aedilium Florenz Ecclaesium.
It was examined by Bandini, Birch, Scholz, and Burgon. C. R. Gregory saw it in 1886.
It is currently housed at the Laurentian Library, at Florence.