Lectionary 287

Lectionary ℓ 287
New Testament manuscript
TextEvangelistarium
Date13th century
ScriptGreek
Now atBiblioteca Ambrosiana
Size29 cm by 21 cm
TypeByzantine text-type

Lectionary 287, designated by siglum ℓ 287 (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] Frederick Henry Ambrose Scrivener labelled it as 166e.[3]

Description

The codex contains lessons from the Gospel of John, Matthew, and Luke (Evangelistarium), on 201 parchment leaves (29 cm by 21 cm), with some lacunae.[4]

The text is written in Greek minuscule letters, in two columns per page, 29 lines per page.[1][4] The manuscript contains weekday Gospel lessons.[1]

It contains the text of the Pericope Adulterae (John 8:3-11).[4]

History

Scrivener and Gregory dated the manuscript to the 13th century.[3][4] It has been assigned by the Institute for New Testament Textual Research to the 13th century.[1][2]

The manuscript was added to the list of New Testament manuscripts by Scrivener (number 166e) and Gregory (number 287e). 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 (D. 108 sup., fol. 3–203) in Milan. The leaves 1–2,204 of the same codex are classified as lectionary 2352 (Gregory-Aland).[1][2]

See also

Notes and references

  1. ^ a b c d e 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. ^ 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 e Gregory, Caspar René (1900). Textkritik des Neuen Testaments, Vol. 1. Leipzig: J.C. Hinrichs’sche Buchhandlung. pp. 411–412.
  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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