Lectionary 201

Lectionary ℓ 201

New Testament manuscript
Text	Evangelistarium
Date	13th century
Script	Greek
Now at	Bodleian Library
Size	26.5 cm by 19.5 cm
Hand	carelessly written

Lectionary 201, designated by siglum ℓ 201 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering) is a Greek manuscript of the New Testament, on parchment. Palaeographically it has been assigned to the 13th century.[1][2] Scrivener labelled it by 209^evl.[3]

Description

The codex contains lessons from the Gospels of John, Matthew, Luke lectionary (Evangelistarium), with some lacunae.[3][4] The text is written in Greek minuscule letters, on 187 parchment leaves (26.5 cm by 19.5 cm), in two columns per page, 27 lines per page.[1][2] It is full of errors of itacism.[4]

According to Scrivener the manuscript is "carelessly and ill written".[3]

There are daily lessons from Easter to Pentecost.[1]

History

Scrivener and Gregory dated the manuscript to the 13th century.[3][4] It is presently assigned by the INTF to the 13th century.[1][2]

The manuscript was added to the list of New Testament manuscripts by Scrivener (number 209) and Gregory (number 201). 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 (E. D. Clarke 48) 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. 404.
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. 404.