Minuscule 268


Minuscule 268, ε 1163, 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 the text of the four Gospels on 396 parchment leaves. The text is written in two columns per page, in 25 lines per page.
The text is divided according to numbers of the κεφαλαια, whose numbers are given at the margin, and their τιτλοι at the top of the pages. There is also a division according to the smaller Ammonian Sections, with references to the Eusebian Canons.
It contains the Epistula ad Carpianum, Eusebian Canon tables, tables of the κεφαλαια before each Gospel, lectionary markings at the margin, synaxaria, and Menologion. Incipits and pictures were added by a later hand.

Text

The Greek text of the codex is a representative of the Byzantine text-type. Aland placed it in Category V.
According to the Claremont Profile Method it represent the textual family Π268 in Luke 1 and Luke 20. In Luke 20 no profile was made. It creates textual pair with Minuscule 787.

History

The manuscripts was added to the list of New Testament manuscripts by Scholz.
It was examined and described by Paulin Martin. C. R. Gregory saw the manuscript in 1885.
The manuscript is currently housed at the Bibliothèque nationale de France at Paris.