Minuscule 68 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), ε 269 (von Soden),[1] is a Greek minuscule manuscript of the New Testament, on parchment leaves. Palaeographically it has been assigned to the 11th century.[2] The manuscript has complex contents. It was adapted for liturgical use, it has marginalia.
The codex contains complete text of the four Gospels on 291 leaves (size).[2] The text is written in one column per page, 23 lines per page.[3]
The text is divided according to the Greek, Ancient (to 1453);: κεφαλαια (chapters), whose numbers are given at the margin of the text, 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 (no references to the Eusebian Canons).[3]
It contains the Epistle to Carpian, Eusebian Canon tables at the beginning, tables of the Greek, Ancient (to 1453);: κεφαλαια (tables of contents) before each Gospel, lectionary markings at the margin (for liturgical use), synaxaria, and Menologium.[4] It has musical notes in red.[4]
The Greek text of the codex is a representative of the Byzantine text-type. Aland placed it in Category V.[5]
According to the Claremont Profile Method it represents textual family Πb in Luke 1 and Luke 20. In Luke 10 no profile was made.[6]
The manuscript was brought to England from Zante by Sir George Wheler, botanist and early traveller, in 1676 with two other copies (95 and ℓ 3).[3] [4] It was used by John Mill in his Novum Testamentum graecum (as Wheeler 1). C. R. Gregory saw it in 1883.[3]
It is currently housed in Lincoln College Library (Gr. 17), Oxford.[2]