Lectionary 197

Lectionary ℓ 197

New Testament manuscript
Text	Apostolarion
Date	15th century
Script	Greek
Now at	Bodleian Library
Size	21.5 cm by 15.5 cm
Hand	splendid

Lectionary 197, designated by siglum ℓ 197 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering) is a Greek manuscript of the New Testament, on paper. Palaeographically it has been assigned to the 15th century.[1][2] Scrivener labelled it by 205^evl.[3]

Description

The codex contains three lessons from the Epistles lectionary (Apostolarium).[3][4] Only 8 leaves (21.5 cm by 15.5 cm) of the codex have survived. The text is written in Greek minuscule letters, on paper, in one column per page, 20 lines per page.[1][2][4]

History

Gregory dated the manuscript to the 15th century.[4] Today it is dated by the INTF to the 15th century.[1][2]

It was added to the list of New Testament manuscripts by Scrivener (number 205). Gregory saw it in 1883.[4]

The manuscript is not cited in the critical editions of the Greek New Testament (UBS3).[5]

Currently the codex is located in the Bodleian Library (Canonici Gr. 126, fol 252–259) at Oxford.[1][2]

See also

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

Notes and references

1. Aland, Kurt; M. Welte; B. Köster; K. Junack (1994). Kurzgefasste Liste der griechischen Handschriften des Neues Testaments. Berlin, New York: Walter de Gruyter. p. 230. ISBN 3-11-011986-2.
2. INTF
3. 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. 341.
4. Gregory, Caspar René (1900). Textkritik des Neuen Testaments, Vol. 1. Leipzig. p. 403.
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), pp. XXVIII, XXX.

Bibliography

• Gregory, Caspar René (1900). Textkritik des Neuen Testaments, Vol. 1. Leipzig. p. 403.