Minuscule 98 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), ε 266 (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] It has marginalia, it was adapted for liturgical use.
The codex contains a complete text of the four Gospels on 222 leaves (size). The text is written stichometrically in one column per page, 25 lines per page.[2] The initial letters in red. There are Iota adscriptum.
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 (no references to the Eusebian Canons).
It contains pictures of Evangelists, lists 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 Gospel, and numbers of Greek, Ancient (to 1453);: [[Stichometry|στιχοι]].[3] [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 belongs to the textual family Kx in Luke 1 and Luke 10. In Luke 20 it has mixed Byzantine text with some relationship to the M groups.[6]
The manuscript was brought by Edward Daniel Clarke (1769-1822) from the East to England. It was by one librarian collated in Matthew 6; 9; 10; Mark 5; 6; Luke 4; 5; 6 for Scholz.[4] Wettstein's 98 is Lectionary 294. C. R. Gregory saw it in 1883.[3]
It is currently housed at the Bodleian Library (E. D. Clarke 5), at Oxford.[2]