Minuscule 168

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Minuscule 168 is a 13th‑century Greek manuscript of the New Testament on parchment, kept in the Vatican Library (Barberini gr. 570) in Rome. It contains all four Gospels on 217 leaves, each page in two columns with 40 lines per page, written in brown‑black ink. The text includes Theophylact’s commentary and has some gaps: Luke 24:13–53 and John 1:1–14 are missing, and the manuscript’s beginning was damaged by humidity.

The manuscript uses chapter numbers (κεφαλαια) and titles (τιτλοι) at the top, and also follows Ammonian Sections with references to the Eusebian Canons. It has tables of contents before each Gospel and end notes for Mark with counts of words (ρηματα) and lines (στιχοι) added later. The Greek text is mixed, and Aland did not place it in a specific category. Claremont Profile Method shows a mixed text in Luke 1, a mixture of Byzantine families in Luke 10, and Luke 20 is defective; it has some relation to cluster 1675 in Luke 1 and to group Λ.

The manuscript was examined by Birch around 1782, Scholz in the 1790s–1850s, and C. R. Gregory in 1886. It is currently housed at the Vatican Library in Rome.