Minuscule 148 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), ε 132 (Soden),[1] is a Greek minuscule manuscript of the New Testament, on parchment leaves. Palaeographically it has been assigned to the 11th century.[2] It has marginalia.
The codex contains a complete text of the four Gospels on 153 parchment leaves (size).[2] The text is written in one column per page, in 21 lines per page.[2]
The text is divided according to the Greek, Ancient (to 1453);: κεφαλαια (chapters), whose numbers are given at the margin, and their Greek, Ancient (to 1453);: τιτλοι (titles of chapters) at the top of the pages. There is also another division according to the smaller Ammonian Sections (in Mark 234, last numbered section in 16:9), with references to the Eusebian Canons (written below Ammonian Section numbers).
It contains tables of the Greek, Ancient (to 1453);: κεφαλαια (tables of contents) before each Gospel, synaxaria, and some scholia on the margin.[3]
The Greek text of the codex is a representative of the Byzantine text-type. Hermann von Soden classified it to the textual family Kx. Aland placed it in Category V.[4]
According to the Claremont Profile Method it belongs to the textual family Kx in Luke 1, Luke 10, and Luke 20.[5]
The text of the Gospels has some unusual readings.[3]
Birch and Scrivener dated it to the 13th century.[6] Gregory dated it to the 11th century. Currently it is dated by the INTF to the 11th century.[2]
The manuscript was examined by Birch (about 1782) and Scholz. C. R. Gregory saw the manuscript in 1886.[3]
It is currently housed at the Vatican Library (Pal. gr. 136), at Rome.[2]