Minuscule 95


Minuscule 95, A212, is a Greek minuscule manuscript of the New Testament, on parchment leaves. Palaeographically it has been assigned to the 12th century. It has marginalia.

Description

The codex contains the text of the Gospel of Luke ; John 1:1-7:1; 7:18-20:30; 21:11-25 on 110 leaves with a commentary. The text is written in one column per page, 20 lines per page. The initial letters are written in red.
The text is divided according to the κεφαλαια, whose numbers of at the margin. There is also a division according to the Ammonian Sections,.
It contains full scholia neatly written on the margin, synaxaria, and Menologion.

Text

The Greek text of the codex is a representative of the Byzantine text-type. Aland placed it in Category V.
It was not examined by the Claremont Profile Method.
It contains the Pericope Adulterae but with questionable scholion on the margin: ταυτα μετα και του κεφαλαιου της μοιχαλιδος. Εν τισι των αντιγραφων ωβελισται.
In John 8:8 it has textual variant ενος εκαστου αυτων τας αμαρτιας, as in Codex Nanianus, 73, 331, 413, Minuscule 700, and some other manuscripts.

History

brought the manuscript from Constantinople to England in 1676.
It was examined by Mill, and Nicoll. C. R. Gregory saw it in 1883.
It is currently housed at the Lincoln College, at Oxford.