Lectionary 279

Lectionary 279

New Testament manuscript

Text Evangelistarium
Date 11th century
Script Greek
Now at Venice
Size 31.5 cm by 26 cm
Type Byzantine text-type
Note illuminated

Lectionary 279, designated by siglum 279 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering) is a Greek manuscript of the New Testament, on parchment. Palaeographically it has been assigned to the 11th century.[1][2] Frederick Henry Ambrose Scrivener labelled it as 184e,[3]

The manuscript has complex contents.[1]

Description

The codex contains lessons from the Gospel of John, Matthew, and Luke (Evangelistarium).[4]

The text is written in Greek minuscule letters, on 411 parchment leaves (31.5 cm by 26 cm), in two columns per page, 21-23 lines per page.[1][4] The manuscript contains weekday Gospel lessons.[1]

The manuscript is bound in red velvet, and according to Scrivener in excellent preservation. It "is very splendidly illuminated".[3]

It contains text of the pericope John 8:3-11.[4]

History

Scrivener dated the manuscript to the 14th century,[3] and Gregory to the 12th century.[4] It has been assigned by the Institute for New Testament Textual Research (INTF) to the 11th century.[1][2]

The manuscript was written in Constantinople.[4]

The manuscript was added to the list of New Testament manuscripts by Scrivener (number 184e) and Gregory (number 279e). Gregory saw the manuscript in 1886.[4]

The manuscript is not cited in the critical editions of the Greek New Testament (UBS3).[5]

The codex is housed at the Istituto Ellenico di Studi Bizantini e Postbizantini (A') in Venice, Italy.[1][2]

See also

Notes and references

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 Aland, K.; M. Welte; B. Köster; K. Junack (1994). Kurzgefasste Liste der griechischen Handschriften des Neues Testaments. Berlin, New York: Walter de Gruyter. p. 235. ISBN 3-11-011986-2.
  2. 1 2 3 Handschriftenliste at the INTF
  3. 1 2 3 Scrivener, Frederick Henry Ambrose; Edward Miller (1894). A Plain Introduction to the Criticism of the New Testament, Vol. 1 (4th ed.). London: George Bell & Sons. p. 340.
  4. 1 2 3 4 5 6 Gregory, Caspar René (1900). Textkritik des Neuen Testaments, Vol. 1. Leipzig. p. 411.
  5. The Greek New Testament, ed. K. Aland, A. Black, C. M. Martini, B. M. Metzger, and A. Wikgren, in cooperation with INTF, United Bible Societies, 3rd edition, (Stuttgart 1983), pp. XXVIII, XXX.

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