Lectionary 224

New Testament manuscripts
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Lectionary ℓ 224
Text Evangelistarium
Date 14th century
Script Greek
Now at University of Michigan
Size 26 cm by 20.3 cm
Hand neat

Lectionary 224, designated by siglum ℓ 224 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering) is a Greek manuscript of the New Testament, on parchment. Palaeographically it has been assigned to the 14th century.[1][2] Scrivener labelled it by 247evl. The manuscript has complex context.

Description

The codex contains lessons from the Gospels of John, Matthew, Luke lectionary (Evangelistarium),[3] on 206 parchment leaves (26 cm by 20.3 cm). The text is written in Greek minuscule letters, in one column per page, 21 lines per page.[1][2] According to Scrivener the manuscript is neat and complete.[4]

There are daily lessons from Easter to Pentecost.[1]

History

Scrivener dated the manuscript to the 14th or 15th century, Gregory to the 14th century.[4][3] It has been assigned by the INTF to the 14th century.[1][2]

Of the history of the codex nothing is known until 1864, when it was in the possession of a dealer at Janina in Epeiros. It was then purchased from him by a representative of Baroness Burdett-Coutts (1814–1906), a philanthropist,[5] along with other Greek manuscripts.[3] They were transported to England in 1870-1871.[6] The manuscript was presented by Burdett-Coutts to Sir Roger Cholmely's School, and was housed at the Highgate (Burdett-Coutts III. 34), in London.[3]

The manuscript was added to the list of New Testament manuscripts by Scrivener (number 247) and Gregory (number 224). Gregory saw it in 1883.[3] In 1922 it was acquired for the University of Michigan.[7] The manuscript was digitalized by the CSNTM in 2008.[8]

The manuscript is not cited in the critical editions of the Greek New Testament (UBS3).[9]

The codex is housed at the University of Michigan (Ms. 31) in Ann Arbor.[1][2]

See also

Notes and references

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 Aland, Kurt; M. Welte; B. Köster; K. Junack (1994). Kurzgefasste Liste der griechischen Handschriften des Neues Testaments. Berlin, New York: Walter de Gruyter. p. 232. ISBN 3-11-011986-2.
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 Handschriftenliste at the INTF
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 Gregory, Caspar René (1900). Textkritik des Neuen Testaments, Vol. 1. Leipzig. p. 406.
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 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. 344.
  5. ↑ Parker, Franklin (1995). George Peabody, a biography. Vanderbilt University Press. p. 107. ISBN 0826512569.
  6. ↑ Robert Mathiesen, An Important Greek Manuscript Rediscovered and Redated (Codex Burdett-Coutts III.42), The Harvard Theological Review, Vol. 76, No. 1 (Jan., 1983), pp. 131-133.
  7. ↑ Kenneth W. Clark, A Descriptive Catalogue of Greek New Testament Manuscripts in America (Chicago, 1937), p. 294.
  8. ↑ Images of Lectionary 224 at the CSNTM
  9. ↑ 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. XXX.

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