Lectionary 284

Lectionary ℓ 284
New Testament manuscript
TextEvangelistarium
Date10th century
ScriptGreek
Now atBiblioteca Ambrosiana
Size25.5 cm by 21 cm
TypeByzantine text-type

Lectionary 284, designated by siglum ℓ 284 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering) is a Greek manuscript of the New Testament, on parchment. Palaeographically it has been assigned to the 10th century.[1][2] Scrivener labelled it as 163e.[3]

Only one leaf of the manuscript has survived.[1]

Description

The codex contains parts of the two lessons with the text of the Matthew (26:17-20) and Gospel of John (13:3-12) (Evangelistarium).[4]

The text is written in Greek uncial letters, on 1 parchment leaf (25.5 cm by 21 cm), in two columns per page, 21 lines per page.[1][4]

History

Scrivener and Gregory dated the manuscript to the 10th century.[3][4] It is presently assigned by the INTF to the 10th century.[1][2]

The manuscript was added to the list of New Testament manuscripts by Scrivener (number 163e) and Gregory (number 284e). Gregory saw the manuscript in 1886.[4]

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

Currently the codex is housed at the Biblioteca Ambrosiana (Q. 79 sup., fol. 1) in Milan.[1][2]

See also

Notes and references

  1. ^ a b c d e Aland, K.; M. Welte; B. Köster; K. Junack (1994). Kurzgefasste Liste der griechischen Handschriften des Neues Testaments. Berlin, New York: Walter de Gruyter. p. 236. ISBN 3-11-011986-2.
  2. ^ a b c Handschriftenliste at the INTF
  3. ^ a b 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. 338.
  4. ^ a b c d Gregory, Caspar René (1900). Textkritik des Neuen Testaments, Vol. 1. Leipzig: J.C. Hinrichs’sche Buchhandlung. p. 411.
  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.

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