Lectionary 2

Lectionary ℓ 2

New Testament manuscript
Text	Evangelistarion
Date	10th century
Script	Greek
Now at	Bibliothèque nationale de France
Size	28.6 cm by 21.8 cm

Lectionary 2, designated siglum ℓ 2 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), is a Greek manuscript of the New Testament on vellum.[1] Palaeographically it has been assigned to the 10th century. Formerly it was variously dated. Scrivener dated it to the 9th century,[2] Henri Omont to the 14th century, Gregory to the 10th century. In the present day it is unanimously dated to the 10th century.

Description

The codex contains lessons from the Gospels lectionary (Evangelistarium) with some lacunae.[3] The text is written in Greek uncial letters, on 257 parchment leaves (28.6 cm by 21.8 cm), 2 columns per page, 18 lines per page.[1] It has musical notes.[3]

History

The manuscript once belonged to Colbert. It was examined and described by Wettstein and Scholz, Paulin Martin,[4] Henri Omont, and William Hatch. C. R. Gregory saw the manuscript in 1885.[3]

It was added to the list of the New Testament manuscripts by Wettstein.[5]

The manuscript is not cited in the critical editions of the Greek New Testament of UBS (UBS3).[6]

The codex now is located in the Bibliothèque nationale de France (Gr. 280) in Paris.[1][7]

See also

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

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. 219.
2. F. H. A. Scrivener, "A Plain Introduction to the Criticism of the New Testament" (George Bell & Sons: London 1894), vol. 1, p. 328.
3. Gregory, Caspar René (1900). Textkritik des Neuen Testaments. Vol. 1. Leipzig: J.C. Hinrichs’sche Buchhandlung. p. 387.
4. Jean-Pierre-Paul Martin, Description technique des manuscrits grecs, relatif au N. T., conservé dans les bibliothèques des Paris (Paris 1883), p. 138
5. 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.
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.
7. "Liste Handschriften". Münster: Institute for New Testament Textual Research. Retrieved 27 August 2011.

Bibliography

• Henri Omont, Fac-similés des plus anciens mss. grecs de la Bibliothèque Nationale du IVe and XIVe siècle (Paris, 1892), 19.
• W. H. P. Hatch, Facsimiles and descriptions of minuscule manuscripts of the New Testament, LXXIII (Cambridge, 1951).