Name Vind. Ness. 180 Date 13th century Size 9.7 cm by 6.8 cm | Text Gospels Script Greek | |
Now at Austrian National Library | ||
Minuscule 220 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), ε 457 (Soden), is a Greek minuscule manuscript of the New Testament, on parchment. Paleographically it has been assigned to the 13th century. It has complex contents. It has marginalia.
Contents
Description
The codex contains a complete text of the four Gospels, on 303 parchment leaves (size 9.7 cm by 6.8 cm). It is written in one column per page, 22 lines per page, in very small letters.
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 (in Mark 234, last numbered section in 16:10), references to the Eusebian Canons are absent.
It contains lectionary markings at the margin for liturgical reading, and synaxaria.
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 represents textual family Πb in Luke 1, Luke 10, and Luke 20.
History
It was examined by Alter. Alter used it in his edition of the Greek text of the New Testament. C. R. Gregory saw it in 1887.
It is currently housed at the Austrian National Library (Theol. Gr. 337), at Vienna.