Minuscule 162

The codex contains a complete text of the four Gospels on 248 parchment leaves (size {{×|23.4|17|cm}}). The text is written in one column per page, in 23 lines per page, in black ink, the capital letters in red.{{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

}}

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 smaller Ammonian Sections (in Mark 240, the last section in 16:19), (no references to the Eusebian Canons).

It contains the Epistula ad Carpianum, the Eusebian Canon tables at the beginning, pictures, and subscriptions at the end of each Gospel.

The Greek text of the codex is a representative of the Byzantine text-type. Hermann von Soden classified it to the textual family I (established by Pamphilus in Caesarea about 300 A.D.). 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 = 138

| isbn = 978-0-8028-4098-1}}

According to the Claremont Profile Method it represents textual family K^x in Luke 1 and Luke 20. In Luke 10 it has mixture of the Byzantine families.{{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

}}

In Luke 11:2 it contains the very same remarkable reading than minuscule 700: {{lang|grc|ἐλθέτω σου τὸ πνεῦμά τὸ ἅγιον καὶ καθαρισάτω ἡμᾶς}} ("May your Holy Spirit come and cleanse us"), instead of "May your Kingdom come" in the Lord's Prayer.Bruce M. Metzger, Bart D. Ehrman, The Text of the New Testament: Its Transmission, Corruption and Restoration, Oxford University Press, 2005, p. 90.

According to the colophon it was written 13 May 1153 by Presbyter Manuel.{{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

}}

It was slightly examined by Birch (about 1782) and Scholz (1794–1852). C. R. Gregory saw it in 1886.

It is currently housed at the Vatican Library (Barb. gr. 449), 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

| page = 161

| url = https://archive.org/stream/textkritikdesne00greggoog#page/n173/mode/2up

}}

• [http://www.skypoint.com/members/waltzmn/Manuscripts1-500.html#m162 Minuscule 162] at the Encyclopedia of Textual Criticism

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Category:Greek New Testament minuscules

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