Minuscule 28

Biblical scholar Frederick H. A. Scrivener describes the letters as "written carelessly by an ignorant scribe... but has many unique readings and interpolations",[5] a sentiment echoed by biblical scholar F. G. Kenyon: "[Min.

[4] The text is divided according to chapters (known as κεφαλαια / kephalaia), whose numbers are given at the margin, and the titles (known as τιτλοι / titloi) written at the top of the pages.

These are then used to determine the original text as published; there are three main groups with names: Alexandrian, Western, and Byzantine.

[8]: 205–230 Textual critic Kurt Aland placed it in Category III of his New Testament manuscript text classification system, but only in Gospel of Mark, and in the rest of the Gospels placed it in Category V.[9]: 129  Category III manuscripts are described as having "a small but not a negligible proportion of early readings, with a considerable encroachment of [Byzantine] readings, and significant readings from other sources as yet unidentified",[9]: 335  and Category V manuscripts are "Manuscripts with a purely or predominantly Byzantine text.

]"[8]: 87 According to the Claremont Profile Method (a specific analysis method of textual data), it represents the textual family Kx in Luke 10 and Luke 20.

[3] It was added to the list of the New Testament manuscripts by biblical scholar Johann Jakob Wettstein, who gave it the number 28.