Lectionary 20

New Testament manuscripts
papyri • uncials • minuscules • lectionaries
Lectionary ℓ 20
Text Evangelistarion
Date 1047
Script Greek
Now at Bodleian Library
Size 29.5 cm by 24 cm
Note neumes

Lectionary 20, designated by siglum ℓ 20 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), is a Greek manuscript of the New Testament, on vellum leaves. It is dated by a colophon to the year 1047.[1]

Contents

Description

The codex contains lessons from the Gospels of John, Matthew, Luke lectionary (Evangelistarium), with lacunae. The text is written in Greek minuscule letters, on 177 parchment leaves (29.5 cm by 24 cm), 2 columns per page, 22 lines per page.[2] It is ornamented manuscript, it contains red musical notes – neumes.[3]

In Matthew 4:23 it contains textual variant ἐν ὅλη τῇ Γαλιλαίᾳ (in whole Galilee) along with Codex Vaticanus, Codex Bobiensis, syrc and copsa.[4]

History

The codex was written by Onesimus, in April 1047.[3] In 1633 it was purchased by William Laud, and became part of his collection.[2]

It was slightly examined by Griesbach.[2]

The manuscript is sporadically cited in the critical editions of the Greek New Testament (UBS3).[5]

Currently the codex is located in the Bodleian Library (Laud. Gr. 34) in Oxford.[1]

See also

Notes and references

  1. ^ a b K. Aland, M. Welte, B. Köster, K. Junack, Kurzgefasste Liste der griechischen Handschriften des Neues Testaments, (Berlin, New York: Walter de Gruyter, 1994), p. 220.
  2. ^ a b c Gregory, Caspar René (1900). Textkritik des Neuen Testaments, Vol. 1. Leipzig. p. 389. http://www.archive.org/stream/textkritikdesne00greggoog#page/n401/mode/2up. 
  3. ^ a b F. H. A. Scrivener, "A Plain Introduction to the Criticism of the New Testament" (George Bell & Sons: London 1894), vol. 1, p. 329.
  4. ^ 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), p. p. 11.
  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), p. XXIX.

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