Lectionary 264

Lectionary ℓ 264

New Testament manuscript
Text	Evangelistarium
Date	1318
Script	Greek
Now at	Biblioteca Marciana
Size	21.5 cm by 14.5 cm
Hand	barbarously written

Lectionary 264, designated by siglum ℓ 264 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering) is a Greek manuscript of the New Testament, on paper. It is dated by a colophon to the year 1381.[1][2] Scrivener labelled it as 170^e,[3] Gregory by 158^e.[4] The manuscript has complex contents.[1]

Description

The codex contains lessons from the Gospel of John, Matthew, and Luke (Evangelistarium).[4]

The text is written in Greek large minuscule letters, on 209 paper leaves (21.5 cm by 14.5 cm), in one column per page, 21 lines per page.[1] According to Scrivener it is rather barbarously written.[3]

The manuscript contains weekday Gospel lessons from Easter to Pentecost and Saturday/Sunday Gospel lessons for the other weeks.[1]

History

According to the colophon it was written 1381 by Presbyter John.[4]

The colophon stated:

ει και ασφαλματα ευρηται εν τη βιβλω ταυτην, του αγιου και πανσεπτος ευαγγελιου ευχεστε δηα τον κν και μη καρασθε ωτι ουδης διναται, γραφη ανευ βορβωρου και σσωλωι κεισμου ωτι και ο γραφων παραγραφει εγραφη δε το παρον και αγιον ευαγγελιων διαχιρος ιωαννου ιερεις΄εμνηνη διδαιμβριω εις την ια επι ετους ςωπ.

It has also note "Gallicio 1624".[4]

The manuscript was added to the list of New Testament manuscripts by Scrivener (number 170^e) and Gregory (number 264^e). Gregory saw the manuscript in 1886.[4] It was described by Carlo Castellani.

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

Currently the codex is housed at the Biblioteca Marciana (Gr. I.4 (1396)) in Venedig.[1][2]

See also

• List of New Testament lectionaries
• Biblical manuscript
• Textual criticism
• Lectionary 265

Notes and references

1. Aland, K.; M. Welte; B. Köster; K. Junack (1994). Kurzgefasste Liste der griechischen Handschriften des Neues Testaments. Berlin, New York: Walter de Gruyter. p. 234. ISBN 3-11-011986-2.
2. Handschriftenliste at the 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. 339.
4. Gregory, Caspar René (1900). Textkritik des Neuen Testaments, Vol. 1. Leipzig. p. 409.
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. 409.
• Carlo Castellani, Catalogus codicum graecorum qui in bibliothecam D. Marci Venetiarum inde ab anno MDCCXL ad haec usque tempora inlati sunt, Venedig 1895, p. 50 (number 25)