Lectionary 49

Lectionary ℓ 49

New Testament manuscript

Text Evangelistarion
Date 10th-century
Script Greek
Now at State Historical Museum
Size 32.7 cm by 23.7 cm

Lectionary 49, designated by siglum ℓ 49 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering). It is a Greek manuscript of the New Testament, on parchment leaves. Palaeographically it has been assigned to the 10th- or 11th-century.[1]

Description

The codex contains Lessons from the Gospels of John, Matthew, Luke lectionary (Evangelistarium), on 437 parchment leaves (32.7 cm by 23.7 cm). It is written in two columns per page, in 23 lines per page, in Greek minuscule letters.[1] It contains pictures.[2]

Matthew 10:12

It reads λεγοντες ειρηνη τω οικω τουτω for αυτην – the reading is supported by manuscripts: Sinaiticus*,2, Bezae, Regius, Washingtonianus, Koridethi, Φ f1 22 99 237 251 1010, (1424), it vgcl.[3]

Mark 6:33

It has textual reading ἐκεῖ καὶ προῆλθον αὐτούς along with Codex Sinaiticus, Codex Vaticanus, 0187 (omit εκει), 892, ℓ 69, ℓ 70, ℓ 299, ℓ 303, ℓ 333, ℓ 1579, (ℓ 950 αυτους), itaur, vg, (copsa, bo).[4]

Luke 9:35

It uses the longest reading αγαπητος εν ο ευδοκησα — as in codices C3, Codex Bezae, Codex Athous Lavrensis, ℓ 19, ℓ 31, ℓ 47, ℓ 48, ℓ 183, ℓ 183m, ℓ 211m;[5]

History

The manuscript was presented in 1312 by Nicephorus, metropolite of Crete, to the monastery of the Birth of God Brontochiu. It was examined by Matthaei.[6]

The manuscript is sporadically cited in the critical editions of the Greek New Testament (UBS3).[7]

Currently the codex is located in the State Historical Museum, (V. 12, S. 225) in Moscow.[1]

See also

Notes and references

  1. 1 2 3 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. ↑ Scrivener, Frederick Henry Ambrose; Edward Miller (1894). A Plain Introduction to the Criticism of the New Testament 1 (4th ed.). London: George Bell & Sons. p. 331.
  3. ↑ Eberhard Nestle, Erwin Nestle, Barbara Aland and Kurt Aland (eds), Novum Testamentum Graece, 26th edition, (Stuttgart: Deutsche Bibelgesellschaft, 1991), p. 24
  4. ↑ UBS3, p. 144.
  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. 246.
  6. ↑ Gregory, Caspar René (1900). Textkritik des Neuen Testaments 1. Leipzig: J.C. Hinrichs. p. 392.
  7. ↑ 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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