Lectionary 286

Lectionary ℓ 286

New Testament manuscript
Text	Evangelistarium
Date	9th century
Script	Greek
Now at	Biblioteca Ambrosiana
Size	25.5 cm by 17.2 cm
Type	Byzantine text-type

Lectionary 286, designated by siglum ℓ 286 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering) is a Greek manuscript of the New Testament, on parchment. Palaeographically it has been assigned to the 9th century.[1][2] Scrivener labelled it as 480^e.[3]

Only 5 leaves of the manuscript has survived.[1]

Description

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

The text is written in Greek uncial letters, on 5 parchment leaves (25.5 cm by 17.2 cm), in one column per page, 23-25 lines per page.[1][4] The manuscript contains weekday Gospel lessons.[1]

It is a palimpsest, the upper text was written in 1150,[4] it contains the writings of Theodor Studites and Anastasius Sinaita.[1]

History

Scrivener and Gregory dated the manuscript to the 9th century.[3][4] It has been assigned by the Institute for New Testament Textual Research to the 9th century.[1][2]

The manuscript was added to the list of New Testament manuscripts by Scrivener (number 480^e) and Gregory (number 286^e). Gregory saw the manuscript in 1886.[4]

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

The codex is housed at the Biblioteca Ambrosiana (E. 101 sup.) in Milan.[1][2]

See also

• List of New Testament lectionaries
• Biblical manuscript
• Textual criticism
• Lectionary 285

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. 236. 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. 357.
4. 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.

Bibliography

• Gregory, Caspar René (1900). Textkritik des Neuen Testaments, Vol. 1. Leipzig: J.C. Hinrichs’sche Buchhandlung. p. 411.