Minuscule 169 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), ε 305 (Soden),[1] is a Greek minuscule manuscript of the New Testament, on parchment. Palaeographically, it has been assigned to the 11th century.[2] It has marginalia.
The codex contains a complete text of the four Gospels on 252 parchment leaves (size).[2] The text is written in one column per page, in 19 lines per page,[2] in light-brown ink. The large initial letters are written in gold.
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 the Ammonian Sections (in Mark 233 sections, the last section in 16:8), with references to the Eusebian Canons (written below Ammonian Section numbers).
It contains Prolegomena, tables of the Greek, Ancient (to 1453);: κεφαλαια (tables of contents) before each Gospel, subscriptions at the end of each Gospel, synaxaria, Menologion, and pictures.[3]
The Greek text of the codex is a representative of the Byzantine text-type. According to Hermann von Soden it is related to the Byzantine commentated text (Ak). Aland placed it in Category V.[4]
According to the Claremont Profile Method it represents the textual family Kx in Luke 1 and Luke 20, with some relationship to cluster 1442. In Luke 10 no profile was made.[5]
The pericope Pericope Adulterae (John 7:53-8:11) is omitted.[6]
The manuscript was once in the property of Achilles Statius, as also was minuscule 171.[3]
It was examined by Bianchini, Birch (about 1782), and Scholz (1794-1852). C. R. Gregory saw it in 1886.[6]
It is currently housed at the Biblioteca Vallicelliana (B. 133), at Rome.[2]