Minuscule 160


Minuscule 160, ε 213, is a Greek minuscule manuscript of the New Testament, on parchment. It is dated by its colophon to the year 1123. it has marginalia.

Description

The codex contains a complete text of the four Gospels on 216 thick parchment leaves. The text is written in one column per page, in 23 lines per page, in brown ink, the capital letters in red. It uses "ι adscriptum".
The text is divided according to the κεφαλαια, whose numbers are given at the margin, and the τιτλοι at the top of the pages. There is also a division according to the Ammonian Sections,.
The tables of the κεφαλαια are placed before each Gospel, lectionary markings at the margin for liturgical use, synaxaria, Menologion, and subscriptions at the end of each Gospel.

Text

the Greek text of the codex did not place it in any Category. It is classified to the textual Family 1424. According to the Claremont Profile Method it has mixed text in Luke 1. In Luke 10 and Luke 20 it represents textual family Kx.

History

The manuscript was housed at the Barberini Palace, founded by the Cardinal, Francis II.
It was examined by Birch and Scholz. C. R. Gregory saw the manuscript in 1886.
It is currently housed at the Vatican Library, at Rome.