Lectionary 50

New Testament manuscripts
papyri • uncials • minuscules • lectionaries
Lectionary ℓ 50
Text Evangelistarion
Date 11th-century
Script Greek
Now at State Historical Museum
Size 37 cm by 27 cm

Lectionary 50, designated by siglum ℓ 50 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering). It is a Greek manuscript of the New Testament, on parchment leaves. Palaeographically it has been assigned to the 11th-century.[1]

Description

The codex contains lessons from the Gospels of John, Matthew, Luke lectionary (Evangelistarium), on 231 parchment leaves (37 cm by 27 cm), with some lacunae in beginning. It is written in two columns per page, in 17 and more lines per page, in Greek uncial letters.[1] Full of itacismus, it contains musical notes.[2]

According to Scrivener it is very valuable copy.[3]

History

The manuscript was examined by Matthaei (dated by him to 14th-century).[3] Currently the codex is located in the State Historical Museum (V. 10, S. 226) in Moscow.[1]

The manuscript is not cited in the critical editions of the Greek New Testament (UBS3).[4]

See also

Notes and references

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Aland, Kurt; M. Welte; B. Köster; K. Junack (1994). Kurzgefasste Liste der griechischen Handschriften des Neues Testaments. Berlin, New York: Walter de Gruyter. p. 221. ISBN 3-11-011986-2.
  2. ↑ Gregory, Caspar René (1900). Textkritik des Neuen Testaments 1. Leipzig: J.C. Hinrichs. p. 392.
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 F. H. A. Scrivener, "A Plain Introduction to the Criticism of the New Testament" (George Bell & Sons: London 1861), p. 214.
  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), pp. XXVIII, XXX.