Minuscule 164 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), ε 116 (Soden),[1] is a Greek minuscule manuscript of the New Testament, on parchment. It is dated by its colophon to the year 1039.[2] It has complex contents, with full marginalia.
The codex contains a complete text of the four Gospels on 214 parchment leaves (size).[2] The text is written in one column per page, in 19 lines per page.[2] The text of Matthew 7:12-8:4 on folios 15-16 was added by a later hand.
The text is divided according to the Greek, Ancient (to 1453);: κεφαλαια (chapters), whose numbers are given at the margin, and the Greek, Ancient (to 1453);: τιτλοι (titles of chapters) at the top of the pages. There is also a division according to the Ammonian Sections (in Mark 237 - 16:15), with references to the Eusebian Canons (written below Ammonian Section numbers).
It contains the Epistula ad Carpianum, Eusebian Canon tables, tables of the Greek, Ancient (to 1453);: κεφαλαια (tables of contents) before each Gospel, lectionary markings at the margin (for liturgical use), subscriptions at the end of each book, numbers of Greek, Ancient (to 1453);: [[Stichometry|στιχοι]], and pictures.[3] The Synaxarion and Menologion were added by a later hand.[4] [3] It has the famous Jerusalem Colophon ("from the ancient manuscripts of Jerusalem").[3]
Aland the Greek text of the codex did not place it in any Category.[5] According to Black it represents the Alexandrian text-type.[6] According to the Claremont Profile Method in Luke 1; 10; 20 it is close to Codex Tischendorfianus III and related to 1443.[7]
The Pericope Adulterae (John 7:53-8:11) is marked by an obelus.[3]
The subscription states that it was written by Leo, a priest and calligrapher, in October 1193, and bought in 1168 by Bartholomeus, who compared it with ancient Jerusalem manuscripts on the sacred mount.[4]
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 (Barberini gr. 319), at Rome.[2]