Minuscule 189 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), α 269 (Soden),[1] is a Greek minuscule manuscript of the New Testament, on parchment. Palaeographically it has been assigned to the 14th century.[2] It has marginalia.
The codex contains the text of the four Gospels, Acts of the Apostles, Catholic epistles and Pauline epistles on 452 elegant parchment leaves (size).[2] The text is written in one column per page, in 24 lines per page,[2] in light-black ink, capital letters in red.[3] The letters are small and beautiful.
The text is divided according to the Greek, Ancient (to 1453);: κεφαλαια (chapters), whose numbers are given at the margin. There is no Greek, Ancient (to 1453);: τιτλοι (titles of chapters) at the top of the pages.[3]
It contains lists of the Greek, Ancient (to 1453);: κεφαλαια (tables of contents) before each book, lectionary equipment at the margin (for liturgical reading), Greek, Ancient (to 1453);: αναγνωσεις (lessons), synaxaria,[4] the Euthalian Apparatus to the Catholic and Pauline epistles.[3] It has only one lacunae in John 19:38-21:25.[3]
The Greek text of the codex is a representative of the Byzantine text-type. Aland placed it in Category V.[5] 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.[6]
It was examined by Birch, Scholz, Burgon, and C. R. Gregory (1886).[3]
It is currently housed at the Laurentian Library (Plutei. VI. 27), at Florence.[2]