{{New Testament manuscript infobox | form = Minuscule | number = '''167''' | image = | isize = | caption= | name = | sign = | text = Gospels | script = Greek | date = 13th century | found = | now at = Vatican Library | cite = | size = {{×|12.5|8.5}} | type = Byzantine text-type | cat = V | hand = | note = member of K<sup>r</sup> <br /> marginalia }}

'''Minuscule 167''' (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), ε 305 (Soden),<ref name = Gregory1908>{{cite book|last=Gregory|first=Caspar René|author-link=Caspar René Gregory|title=Die griechischen Handschriften des Neuen Testament|url=https://archive.org/stream/diegriechischen00greggoog#page/n65/mode/2up|year=1908|publisher=J. C. Hinrichs'sche Buchhandlung|location=Leipzig|page=54}}</ref> is a Greek minuscule manuscript of the New Testament, on parchment. Palaeographically it has been assigned to the 13th century.<ref name = Aland>K. Aland, M. Welte, B. Köster, K. Junack, "Kurzgefasste Liste der griechischen Handschriften des Neues Testaments", ''Walter de Gruyter'', Berlin, New York 1994, p. 57.</ref> It has marginalia.

==Description== The codex contains a complete text of the four Gospels on 264 parchment leaves (size {{×|12.5|8.5}}).<ref name = Aland/> The text is written in one column per page, in 25 lines per page.<ref name = Aland/> The initial letters in gold, the ink is brown.<ref name = Gregory/>

The text is divided according to the {{lang|grc|κεφαλαια}} (''chapters''), whose numbers are given at the margin, and the {{lang|grc|τιτλοι}} (''titles'') at the top of the pages.<ref name = Gregory/>

It contains lists of the {{lang|grc|κεφαλαια}} (''lists of contents'') before each Gospel, subscriptions at the end of each Gospel, and pictures (added by later hand).<ref name = Gregory/><ref name = Scrivener>{{Cite book | last = Scrivener | first = Frederick Henry Ambrose | author-link = Frederick Henry Ambrose Scrivener |author2=Edward Miller | title = A Plain Introduction to the Criticism of the New Testament | publisher = George Bell & Sons | year = 1894 | location = London | edition = 4 | page = 215 | volume = 1 }}</ref>

The Pericope Adulterae (John 7:53-8:11) is marked by an obelus.<ref name = Gregory>{{Cite book | last = Gregory | first = Caspar René | author-link = Caspar René Gregory | title = Textkritik des Neuen Testaments | publisher = J.C. Hinrichs | year = 1900 | location = Leipzig | volume = 1 | page = 161 | url = https://archive.org/stream/textkritikdesne00greggoog#page/n173/mode/2up }}</ref>

==Text== The Greek text of the codex is a representative of the Byzantine text-type. Hermann von Soden classified it to the textual family K<sup>r</sup>.<ref name = Wisse/> Aland placed it in Category V.<ref>{{Cite book | last = Aland | first = Kurt | author-link = Kurt Aland | last2 = Aland | first2 = Barbara | author-link2 = Barbara Aland | others = Erroll F. Rhodes (trans.) | title = The Text of the New Testament: An Introduction to the Critical Editions and to the Theory and Practice of Modern Textual Criticism | publisher = William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company | year = 1995 | location = Grand Rapids | page = [https://archive.org/details/textnewtestament00kurt/page/n160 138] | url =https://archive.org/details/textnewtestament00kurt | url-access = limited | isbn = 978-0-8028-4098-1}}</ref>

According to the Claremont Profile Method it belongs to the textual family K<sup>r</sup> in Luke 1 and Luke 20. In Luke 10 no profile was made. It creates textual cluster 167.<ref name = Wisse>{{Cite book | last = Wisse | first = Frederik | title = The Profile Method for the Classification and Evaluation of Manuscript Evidence, as Applied to the Continuous Greek Text of the Gospel of Luke | publisher = William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company | year = 1982 | location = Grand Rapids | pages = [https://archive.org/details/profilemethodfor00wiss/page/56 56, 92] | url = https://archive.org/details/profilemethodfor00wiss/page/56 | isbn = 0-8028-1918-4 | url-access = registration }}</ref>

==History== It was examined by Birch (about 1782) and Scholz (1794–1852). C. R. Gregory saw it in 1886.<ref name = Gregory/>

It is currently housed at the Vatican Library (Barb. gr. 287), at Rome.<ref name = Aland/>

==See also== {{Portal|Bible}} * List of New Testament minuscules * Biblical manuscript * Textual criticism

==References== {{Reflist}}

==Further reading== * V. Puntoni, [https://archive.org/stream/studiitalianidi21unkngoog#page/n504/mode/2up ''Per la Sticometria degli Scritti del Nuovo Testamento''], in: ''Studi italiani di filologia classica'' 3 (Florence, 1895), p.&nbsp;495.

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