Lectionary 41

Lectionary ℓ 41

New Testament manuscript
Text	Evangelistarion
Date	11th-century
Script	Greek
Now at	Escorial
Size	25.2 cm by 18.2 cm
Type	Byzantine text-type
Hand	very elegant

Lectionary 41, designated ℓ 41 in the Gregory-Aland numbering, is a Greek manuscript of the New Testament, written on parchment leaves. Palaeographically it has been assigned to the 11th-century.[1]

Description

The codex contains lessons from the Gospels of John, Matthew, Luke lectionary (Evangelistarium), on 204 parchment leaves (25.2 cm by 18.2 cm). The text is written in two columns per page, 21 lines per page, in Greek uncial letters.[1] It contains musical notes.[2]

It contains an elegantly written menologion (like in codex 43)[3]

History

Formerly the manuscript belonged to Hurtado de Mendoza. It was examined by Moldenhauer, Emmanuel Miller,[4] and Wilhelm Regel, professor in Petersburg.[3]

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

Currently the codex is located in the Escorial (X. III. 12) in San Lorenzo de El Escorial.[1]

See also

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

Notes and references

1. Aland, K.; M. Welte; B. Köster; K. Junack (1994). Kurzgefasste Liste der griechischen Handschriften des Neues Testaments. Berlin, New York: Walter de Gruyter. p. 221. ISBN 3-11-011986-2.
2. Gregory, Caspar René (1900). Textkritik des Neuen Testaments. Vol. 1. Leipzig: J.C. Hinrichs. p. 391.
3. F. H. A. Scrivener, A Plain Introduction to the Criticism of the New Testament (London 1861), p. 214.
4. Emmanuel Miller, Catalogue des manuscrits grecs de la bibliothèque de l'Escurial (Paris 1848), p. 399.
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.