Minuscule 189 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), α 269 (Soden), is a Greek minuscule manuscript of the New Testament, on parchment. Palaeographically it has been assigned to the 14th century.K. Aland, M. Welte, B. Köster, K. Junack, "Kurzgefasste Liste der griechischen Handschriften des Neues Testaments", Walter de Gruyter, Berlin, New York 1994, p. 58. It has marginalia.
Description
The codex contains the text of the four Gospels, Acts of the Apostles, Catholic epistles and Pauline epistles on 452 elegant parchment leaves (size ). The text is written in one column per page, in 24 lines per page, in light-black ink, capital letters in red. The letters are small and beautiful.
The text is divided according to the (chapters), whose numbers are given at the margin. There is no (titles of chapters) at the top of the pages.
It contains lists of the (tables of contents) before each book, lectionary equipment at the margin (for liturgical reading), (lessons), synaxaria, the Euthalian Apparatus to the Catholic and Pauline epistles. It has only one lacunae in John 19:38-21:25.
Text
The Greek text of the codex is a representative of the Byzantine text-type. Aland placed it in Category V. Hermann von Soden classified it as member of the textual family Kr. According to the Claremont Profile Method it represents Kr in Luke 1 and Luke 20. In Luke 10 no profile was made.
History
It was examined by Birch, Scholz, Burgon, and C. R. Gregory (1886).
It is currently housed at the Laurentian Library (Plutei. VI. 27), at Florence.
See also
List of New Testament minuscules Biblical manuscript Textual criticism
References
Further reading
External links Minuscule 189 at the Encyclopedia of Textual Criticism