Minuscule 157

Minuscule 157
New Testament manuscript
Full-page miniature of the Nativity
NameVaticanus Urbinas graecus 2 (Vat. Urb. gr. 2)
TextGospels
Date1122
ScriptGreek
Now atVatican Library
Size18.6 cm by 13.6 cm
Typemixed
CategoryIII
Handbeautifully written
Notefull marginalia

Minuscule 157 is an illuminated Greek minuscule manuscript of the New Testament Gospels, written on parchment. It is designated by the siglum 157 in the Gregory-Aland numbering of New Testament manuscripts, and ε207 in the von Soden numbering of New Testament manuscripts. According to the colophon it is dated to the year 1122. The date had been wrongly deciphered formally as 1128 (Gregory, Thompson). It has complex contents and full marginal notations.