Codex Radziwiłł

Lectionary ℓ 24

New Testament manuscript
Name	Codex Radziwiłł
Text	Evangelistarion
Date	10th-century
Script	Greek
Now at	Bavarian State Library
Size	31.8 cm by 24.5 cm

Lectionary 24, designated by siglum ℓ 24 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering). It is a Greek manuscript of the New Testament, on vellum leaves, known as Codex Radziwiłł. Palaeographically it has been assigned to the 10th-century.[1]

Description

The codex contains lessons from the Gospels of John, Matthew, Luke lectionary (Evangelistarium), with lacunae. The text is written in Greek uncial letters, on 265 parchment leaves (31.8 cm by 24.5 cm), 2 columns per page, 21 lines per page.[1][2] It contains Menologion and patristic homilies (Gregory of Nazianzus).[3]

There are lessons for Saturdays and Sundays.[3]

History

The manuscript once belonged to the Polish high noble family Radziwiłł — like ℓ 34 — hence name of the codex. It was added to the list of the New Testament manuscripts by Wettstein.[4][5]

The text of the codex was merely examined by Bengel (Augustianus 4), Matthaei, and Scholz.[2] It was added to the list of the New Testament manuscripts by Bengel. Scrivener and Gregory dated the manuscript to the 10th-century.^[1][3] Gregory saw it in 1880 and 1887.[2]

The manuscript is sporadically cited in the critical editions of the Greek New Testament (UBS3).[6]

Currently the codex is located in the Bavarian State Library (Gr. 383) in München.[1]

See also

• List of New Testament lectionaries
• Biblical manuscript
• Textual criticism

Notes and references

1. 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. Gregory, Caspar René (1900). Textkritik des Neuen Testaments. Vol. 1. Leipzig. p. 389.
3. F. H. A. Scrivener, "A Plain Introduction to the Criticism of the New Testament" (George Bell & Sons: London 1861), p. 213.
4. Aland, Kurt; Aland, Barbara (1995). The Text of the New Testament: An Introduction to the Critical Editions and to the Theory and Practice of Modern Textual Criticism. Erroll F. Rhodes (trans.). Grand Rapids: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company. p. 72. ISBN 978-0-8028-4098-1.
5. Wettstein, J. J. (1751). Novum Testamentum Graecum editionis receptae cum lectionibus variantibus codicum manuscripts. Amsterdam: Ex Officina Dommeriana. p. 65.
6. 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.

Bibliography

• Gregory, Caspar René (1900). Textkritik des Neuen Testaments. Vol. 1. Leipzig: J.C. Hinrichs. p. 389.