Minuscule 156

The codex contains a complete text of the four Gospels on 244 parchment leaves (size {{×|12|10}}). The text is written in one column per page, in 23 lines per page (size of text 8.2 by 6.7 cm). Titles are in gold.{{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

| pages = 159–160

| url = https://archive.org/stream/textkritikdesne00greggoog#page/n171/mode/2up

}}

The text is divided according to the {{lang|grc|κεφαλαια}} (chapters), whose numbers are given at the margin, and their {{lang|grc|τιτλοι}} (titles of chapters) at the top of the pages. There is also another division into smaller the Ammonian Sections (in Mark 241 sections - the last in 16:20), but without references to the Eusebian Canons.

It contains tables of the {{lang|grc|κεφαλαια}} (tables of contents) before each Gospel, synaxaria, and numbers of stichoi.

The Greek text of the codex is a representative of the Byzantine text-type. Hermann von Soden included it to the textual family Family K^x. Aland placed it in Category V.{{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}}

According to the Claremont Profile Method it belongs to the textual family Family K^x in Luke 10 and Luke 20. In Luke 1 it has mixed Byzantine text.{{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/56 56]

| url = https://archive.org/details/profilemethodfor00wiss/page/56

| isbn = 0-8028-1918-4

| url-access = registration

}}

On the first of its page it is written: "Ex bibliotheca [Melchioris] Goldasti" († 1625).{{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 = 214

}}

The manuscript was given by Christina of Sweden to Cardinal Decio Azzolino, and bought from him by Pope Alexander VII — like codices 154, 155, 181.

It was examined by Birch (about 1782), Scholz, and Oscar von Gebhardt (in 1882). C. R. Gregory saw it in 1886.

It is currently housed at the Vatican Library (Reg. gr. 189), at Rome.

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| 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

| pages = 159–160

| url = https://archive.org/stream/textkritikdesne00greggoog#page/n171/mode/2up

}}

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Category:Greek New Testament minuscules

Category:12th-century biblical manuscripts

Category:Manuscripts in the Vatican Library