Minuscule 160

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Minuscule 160
Name	Codex Barberinianus 9
Text	Gospels
Date	1123
Script	Greek
Now at	Vatican Library
Size	22.6 cm by 18 cm
Type	Family 1424
Category	none
Note	marginalia

Minuscule 160 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), ε 213 (Soden),^[1] is a Greek minuscule manuscript of the New Testament, on parchment. It is dated by its colophon to the year 1123.^[2] it has marginalia.

Description

The codex contains a complete text of the four Gospels on 216 thick parchment leaves (size 22.6 cm by 18 cm).^[2] The text is written in one column per page, in 23 lines per page (size of column 15.7 by 10.7 cm),^[2] in brown ink, the capital letters in red.^[3] It uses "ι adscriptum".^[3]

The text is divided according to the κεφαλαια (chapters), whose numbers are given at the margin, and the τιτλοι (titles of chapters) at the top of the pages. There is also a division according to the Ammonian Sections, (no references to the Eusebian Canons).^[3]

The tables of the κεφαλαια (tables of contents) are placed before each Gospel, lectionary markings at the margin for liturgical use, synaxaria, Menologion, and subscriptions at the end of each Gospel.^[3]

Text

Kurt Aland the Greek text of the codex did not place it in any Category.^[4] 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 K^x.^[5]

History

The manuscript was housed at the Barberini Palace, founded by the Cardinal, Francis II.^[6]

It was examined by Birch (about 1782) and Scholz (1794–1852). C. R. Gregory saw the manuscript in 1886.^[3]

It is currently housed at the Vatican Library (Barb. gr. 445), at Rome.^[2]

See also

• List of New Testament minuscules
• Biblical manuscript
• Textual criticism

References

1. ^ Gregory, Caspar René (1908). Die griechischen Handschriften des Neuen Testament. Leipzig: J. C. Hinrichs'sche Buchhandlung. p. 53. http://www.archive.org/stream/diegriechischen00greggoog#page/n63/mode/2up. 
2. ^ ^{a b c d} K. Aland, M. Welte, B. Köster, K. Junack, "Kurzgefasste Liste der griechischen Handschriften des Neues Testaments", Walter de Gruyter, Berlin, New York 1994, p. 56.
3. ^ ^{a b c d e} Gregory, Caspar René (1900). Textkritik des Neuen Testaments. 1. Leipzig: Hinrichs. p. 160. http://www.archive.org/stream/textkritikdesne00greggoog#page/n173/mode/2up. 
4. ^ Aland, Kurt; Barbara Aland; Erroll F. Rhodes (trans.) (1995). The Text of the New Testament: An Introduction to the Critical Editions and to the Theory and Practice of Modern Textual Criticism. Grand Rapids: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company. pp. 129, 138. ISBN 978-0-8028-4098-1. 
5. ^ Wisse, Frederik (1982). The profile method for the classification and evaluation of manuscript evidence, as Applied to the Continuous Greek Text of the Gospel of Luke. Grand Rapids: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company. p. 56. ISBN 0-8028-1918-4. 
6. ^ Scrivener, Frederick Henry Ambrose; Edward Miller (1894). A Plain Introduction to the Criticism of the New Testament. 1 (4 ed.). London: George Bell & Sons. p. 215. 

Further reading

• Gregory, Caspar René (1900). Textkritik des Neuen Testaments. 1. Leipzig: Hinrichs. p. 160. http://www.archive.org/stream/textkritikdesne00greggoog#page/n173/mode/2up. 

External links

• Minuscule 160 at the Encyclopedia of Textual Criticism