Lectionary 331

Lectionary ℓ 331

New Testament manuscript
Text	Evangelistarium †
Date	13th-century
Script	Greek
Found	1871
Now at	British Library
Size	24.3 cm by 18.5 cm
Type	Byzantine text-type

Lectionary 331 (Gregory-Aland), designated by siglum ℓ 331 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering)[1] is a Greek manuscript of the New Testament, on parchment. Palaeographically it has been assigned to the 13th-century. The manuscript has not survived in complete condition.

Description

The original codex contained lessons from the Gospel of John (Evangelistarium), with lacunae[2] on 118 parchment leaves. The leaves are measured (24.3 cm by 18.5 cm).[3][4] It begins at John 17:20.[5]

The text is written in Greek minuscule letters, in two columns per page, 25–29 lines per page.[3][4]

The codex contains weekday Gospel lessons from Easter to Pentecost and Saturday/Sunday Gospel lessons for the other weeks.[3][4]

History

According to the colophon it was written in 1272.[2][3] It is presently assigned by the INTF to the 13th-century.[3][4]

It was written by a monk named Cosmas for one Basilius.[2]

It was purchased from Ivor B. Guest in 1871 (along with lectionary 330). It was examined and described by Oscar von Gebhardt in 1881.[2]

The manuscript was added to the list of New Testament manuscripts by Scrivener (280^e)[5] and Gregory (number 331^e).[2] Gregory saw it in 1883.[2]

Currently the codex is housed at the British Library (Add MS 28818) in London.[3][4]

The fragment is not cited in critical editions of the Greek New Testament (UBS4,[6] NA28[7]).

See also

• List of New Testament lectionaries
• Biblical manuscript
• Textual criticism
• Lectionary 330

Notes and references

1. Gregory, Caspar René (1908). Die griechischen Handschriften des Neuen Testament. Leipzig: J. C. Hinrichs'sche Buchhandlung. p. 133.
2. Gregory, Caspar René (1900). Textkritik des Neuen Testaments. Vol. 1. Leipzig: J.C. Hinrichs’sche Buchhandlung. p. 416.
3. Aland, Kurt; M. Welte; B. Köster; K. Junack (1994). Kurzgefasste Liste der griechischen Handschriften des Neues Testaments. Berlin, New York: Walter de Gruyter. p. 239. ISBN 3-11-011986-2.
4. "Liste Handschriften". Münster: Institute for New Testament Textual Research. Retrieved 6 April 2013.
5. 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. 347.
6. Aland, B.; Aland, K.; J. Karavidopoulos, C. M. Martini, B. Metzger, A. Wikgren (1993). The Greek New Testament (4 ed.). Stuttgart: United Bible Societies. p. 21*. ISBN 978-3-438-05110-3.
7. Nestle, Eberhard et Erwin (2001). Novum Testamentum Graece. communiter ediderunt: B. et K. Aland, J. Karavidopoulos, C. M. Martini, B. M. Metzger (27 ed.). Stuttgart: Deutsche Bibelgesellschaft. p. 814. ISBN 978-3-438-05100-4.

Bibliography

• Gregory, Caspar René (1900). Textkritik des Neuen Testaments. Vol. 1. Leipzig: J.C. Hinrichs’sche Buchhandlung. p. 416.

External links

• "Liste Handschriften". Münster: Institute for New Testament Textual Research. Retrieved 12 June 2013.