Lectionary 334

Lectionary ℓ 334
New Testament manuscript
TextEvangelistarium †
Date11th-century
ScriptGreek
Now atBritish Library
Size32.8 cm by 25.8 cm
TypeByzantine text-type
Notepalimpsest

Lectionary 334 (Gregory-Aland), designated by siglum ℓ 334 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering)[1] is a Greek manuscript of the New Testament, on parchment. Palaeographically it has been assigned to the 11th-century. It is a palimpsest The manuscript has not survived in complete condition.

Description

The original codex contained lessons from the Gospel of Matthew (Evangelistarium), with lacunae[2] on 65 parchment leaves. The leaves are measured (32.8 cm by 25.8 cm).[3][4]

The text is written in Greek minuscule letters, in two columns per page, 22 lines per page.[3][4]

It is a palimpsest. The upper text contains a menaion.[3][4] According to the colophon it was written by Ignatius, Metropolitan of Selymbria in Thrace, in the year 1431.[5]

The codex contains Gospel lessons according to the Byzantine Church order.[3][4]

History

Scrivener dated the manuscript to the 8th-century, Gregory dated it to the 11th-century.[5][2] It is presently assigned by the INTF to the 11th-century.[3][4]

The manuscript was added to the list of New Testament manuscripts by Scrivener (282e)[5] and Gregory (number 334e).[2] It was examined by T. K. Abbott and Mahaffy. Gregory saw it in 1883.[2]

Formerly it was held in Blenheim (3. D. 13).[5] Currently the codex is housed at the British Library (Add MS 31919) in London.[3][4]

The fragment is not cited in critical editions of the Greek New Testament (UBS4,[6] NA27[7]).

See also

References

  1. ^ Gregory, Caspar René (1908). Die griechischen Handschriften des Neuen Testament. Leipzig: J. C. Hinrichs'sche Buchhandlung. p. 133.
  2. ^ a b c d Gregory, Caspar René (1900). Textkritik des Neuen Testaments. Vol. 1. Leipzig: J.C. Hinrichs’sche Buchhandlung. p. 416.
  3. ^ a b c d e f 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. ^ a b c d e f "Liste Handschriften". Münster: Institute for New Testament Textual Research. Retrieved 8 October 2013.
  5. ^ a b c d 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. 348.
  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.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  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.

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