Minuscule 198 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), ε 311 (Soden), is a Greek minuscule manuscript of the New Testament, on cotton paper. Palaeographically it has been assigned to the 13th 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. 59. It has full marginalia.
Description
The codex contains a complete text of the four Gospels on 171 cotton paper leaves (size ). The text is written in one column per page, in 29 lines per page (size of text 17 by 10.2 cm). The first leaf was supplied by later hand (paper). The paper is brown, ink is brown.
The text is divided according to the (chapters), whose numbers are given at the margin. There is also a division according to the Ammonian Sections (in Mark 241 Sections – 16:20), with references to the Eusebian Canons (after Mark ιδ in the same line as Ammonian Sections – see codex 112).In the same way arranged codices 112, 192, 212, 267, 507, 583, 584.
It contains the Epistula ad Carpianum, the Eusebian Canon tables, tables of the (tables of contents) before each Gospel, lectionary markings at the margin (for liturgical use), incipits, (no ), and subscriptions at the end of each Gospel.
Text
The Greek text of the codex is a representative of the Byzantine text-type. Aland placed it in Category V.
History
Formerly the manuscript belonged to the Aedilium Florenz Ecclaesium.
It was examined by Bandini, Birch, Scholz, and Burgon. C. R. Gregory saw it in 1886.
It is currently housed at the Laurentian Library (Aedilium 221), at Florence.
See also
List of New Testament minuscules Biblical manuscript Textual criticism
Notes
References
Further reading
Angelo Bandini, Bibliotheca Leopoldin, vol. 1 (Florence 1791), p. 534.