{{New Testament manuscript infobox | form = Minuscule | number = '''170''' | image = | isize = | caption= | name = Codex Vallicellianus C | sign = | text = Gospels † | script = Greek | date = 13th century | found = | now at = Biblioteca Vallicelliana | cite = | size = {{×|21.5|15.7}} | type = Byzantine text-type | cat = V | hand = | note = member of K<sup>r</sup> <br /> marginalia }}
'''Minuscule 170''' (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), ε 307 (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 the text of the four Gospels on 277 parchment leaves (size {{×|21.5|15.7}}).<ref name = Aland/> The text is written in one column per page, in 23 lines per page.<ref name = Aland/> The text of Luke 16:7 and the most of John was written by a later hand from the 15th century.<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><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 = 162 | url = https://archive.org/stream/textkritikdesne00greggoog#page/n175/mode/2up }}</ref>
The text is divided according to the {{lang|grc|κεφαλαια}} (''chapters''), whose numbers are given at the margin, the {{lang|grc|τιτλοι}} (''titles of chapters'') are given at the top of the pages. There is also a division according to the smaller Ammonian Sections, with references to the Eusebian Canons (written below Ammonian Section numbers).<ref name = Gregory/>
It contains prolegomena, tables of the {{lang|grc|κεφαλαια}} (''tables of contents'') before each Gospel (occasionally inserted by later hand), lectionary equipment at the margin for liturgical use, {{lang|grc|αναγνωσεις}} (''lessons''), and numbers of {{lang|grc|στιχοι}} (occasionally by later hand).<ref name = Scrivener/> The Synaxarion and Menologion were added by later hand.<ref name = Gregory/>
== Text == The Greek text of the codex is a representative of the Byzantine text-type. 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>
Hermann von Soden classified it to the textual family K<sup>r</sup>. 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 belongs to subgroup 35.<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 ==
Currently the manuscript is dated to the 13th century.<ref name = Aland/>
It was examined by Bianchini, Birch (about 1782), and Scholz. C. R. Gregory saw it in 1886.<ref name = Gregory/>
It is currently housed at the Biblioteca Vallicelliana (C. 61), at Rome.<ref name = Aland/>
== See also == {{Portal|Bible}} * List of New Testament minuscules * Biblical manuscript * Textual criticism
== References ==
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== Further reading ==
* {{Cite book | last = Gregory | first = Caspar René | author-link = Caspar René Gregory | title = Textkritik des Neuen Testaments | publisher = J.C. Hinrichs'sche Buchhandlung | year = 1900 | location = Leipzig | volume = 1 | page = 162 | url = https://archive.org/stream/textkritikdesne00greggoog#page/n175/mode/2up }}
{{DEFAULTSORT:Minuscule 0170}} Category:Greek New Testament minuscules Category:13th-century biblical manuscripts