{{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} {{New Testament manuscript infobox | form = Minuscule | number = '''98''' | image = | isize = | caption= | name = | sign = | text = Gospels | script = Greek | date = 11th century | found = E. D. Clarke | now at = Bodleian Library | cite = | size = {{×|21.5|16}} | type = Byzantine text-type | cat = V | hand = | note = marginalia }}
'''Minuscule 98''' (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), ε 266 (von 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/n61/mode/2up|year=1908|publisher=J. C. Hinrichs'sche Buchhandlung|location=Leipzig|page=51}}</ref> is a Greek minuscule manuscript of the New Testament, on parchment leaves. Palaeographically it has been assigned to the 11th 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. 52.</ref> It has marginalia, it was adapted for liturgical use.
== Description ==
The codex contains a complete text of the four Gospels on 222 leaves (size {{×|21.5|16}}). The text is written stichometrically in one column per page, 25 lines per page.<ref name = Aland/> The initial letters in red. There are Iota adscriptum.
The text is divided according to the {{lang|grc|κεφαλαια}} (''chapters''), whose numbers are given at the margin, and the {{lang|grc|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).<ref name = Gregory/>
It contains pictures of Evangelists, lists of the {{lang|grc|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 {{lang|grc|στιχοι}}.<ref name = Gregory>{{Cite book | last = Gregory | first = Caspar René | author-link = Caspar René Gregory | title = Textkritik des Neuen Testaments | publisher = Hinrichs | year = 1900 | location = Leipzig | volume = 1 | page = 151 | url = https://archive.org/stream/textkritikdesne00greggoog#page/n163/mode/2up }}</ref><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 | volume = 1 | page = 207 }}</ref>
== 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 = 138 | isbn = 978-0-8028-4098-1}}</ref> According to the Claremont Profile Method it belongs to the textual family K<sup>x</sup> in Luke 1 and Luke 10. In Luke 20 it has mixed Byzantine text with some relationship to the M groups.<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 | page = [https://archive.org/details/profilemethodfor00wiss/page/54 54] | isbn = 0-8028-1918-4 | url-access = registration | url = https://archive.org/details/profilemethodfor00wiss/page/54 }}</ref>
== History == 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.<ref name = Scrivener/> Wettstein's 98 is Lectionary 294. C. R. Gregory saw it in 1883.<ref name = Gregory/>
It is currently housed at the Bodleian Library (E. D. Clarke 5), at Oxford.<ref name = Aland/>
== See also == * 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 = 151 | url = https://archive.org/details/textkritikdesne00greggoog }}
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