Minuscule 13, ε 368, is a Greek minusculemanuscript of the New Testament, on a parchment, dated to the 13th century. The manuscript is lacunose. The text of the manuscript is important for the textual critic. It has marginalia and was adapted for liturgical use.
Description
The codex contains the text of the four Gospels on 170 parchment leaves, with some lacunae. The text is written in two columns per page, 28-30 lines per page, in minuscule letters. According to Scrivener "it is not correctly written". The text is divided according to the κεφαλαια, whose numbers are given at the margin, and their τιτλοι at the top of the pages. There is also another division according to the smaller Ammonian Sections. It has no references to the Eusebian Canons. It contains tables of the κεφαλαια before each Gospel, lectionary markings at the margin, Synaxarion, Menologion, and subscriptions at the end of each Gospel. In subscriptions are given numbers of ρηματα, and numbers of στιχοι. According to subscriptions the Gospel of Matthew was written in Hebrew, Mark in Latin and Luke in Greek. The subscription states that Matthew was written in Hebrew eight years after our Lord's Ascension, and contained 2522 ρηματα and 2560 στιχοι, Mark was written in Latin ten years after the Ascension with 1675 ρηματα and 1604 στιχοι, Luke in Greek fifteen years after with 3803 ρηματα and 2750 stichoi, and John thirty two years after with 1838 ρηματα. According to Ferrar it has 1523 errors of itacisms and another errors, but not more than in other manuscripts of that time. Letter ο is frequently written for ω, ου is once written for υ. The text of Adultery pericopa follows after Luke 21:38. The text of is omitted. Luke 22:43-44 is placed after Matthew 26:39.
Text
The Greek text of the codex is a representative of the Caesarean text-type. It belongs to the textual family known as family 13, or Ferrar group. It was confirmed by the Claremont Profile Method. According to Kurt and Barbara Aland it agrees 150 times with the Byzantine text against the original, 31 times with original against the Byzantine, and 71 it agrees with both. It has also 54 independent or distinctive readings. The Alands placed text of the codex in Category III. The manuscripts of the Ferrar group were derived from an uncial ancestor once located in southern Italy or Sicily in the 7th century. In Matthew 1:16 it has the same textual reading as Codex Koridethi, the Curetonian Syriac, and rest of the manuscripts of the Ferrar Family. In John 12:5 it reads διακοσιων for τριακοσιων along with other manuscripts of the family 13 and 1424;
