Lectionary 5

Lectionary ℓ 5

New Testament manuscript
Folio 115 recto
Name	Barocci 202
Text	Evangelistarion †
Date	10th-century
Script	Greek
Now at	Bodleian Library
Size	31 cm by 23 cm

Lectionary 5, designated by siglum ℓ 5 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering). It is a Greek manuscript of the New Testament, on vellum leaves. Palaeographically it has been assigned to the 10th-century.[1]

Description

The codex contains lessons from the Gospels of John, Matthew, and Luke lectionary (Evangelistarium) with lacunae at the beginning and end. The text is written in Greek uncial letters, on 150 parchment leaves (31 cm by 23 cm), with 2 columns per page, 19 lines per page[1] and 7-12 letters per line.[2] It has musical notes.

Matthew 19:16

διδασκαλε (teacher) — א, B, D, L, f^1, 892^txt, 1010, 1365, ℓ 5, it^a, d, e, ff1, cop^bo, eth, geo, Origen, Hilary;

διδασκαλε αγαθε (good teacher) — C, K, W, Δ, Θ, f^13, 28, 33, 565, 700, 892^mg, 1009, 1071, 1079, 1195, 1216, 1230, 1241, 1242, 1253, 1344, 1546, 1646, 2148, 2174, Byz, Lect, it, vg, syr, cop^sa, arm, eth, Diatessaron.[3]

History

The manuscript once belonged to Colbert. It was examined by John Mill and Wettstein.[4]

It was added to the list of the New Testament manuscripts by Wettstein.[5]

The manuscript is sporadically cited in the critical editions of the Greek New Testament of UBS (UBS3).[6]

The codex now is located in the Bodleian Library (Barocci 202) at Oxford.[1][7]

See also

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

References

1. K. Aland, M. Welte, B. Köster, K. Junack, Kurzgefasste Liste der griechischen Handschriften des Neues Testaments, (Berlin, New York: Walter de Gruyter, 1994), p. 219.
2. Gregory, Caspar René (1900). Textkritik des Neuen Testaments. Vol. 1. Leipzig: J.C. Hinrichs’sche Buchhandlung. p. 387.
3. 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), p. 74.
4. F. H. A. Scrivener, "A Plain Introduction to the Criticism of the New Testament" (George Bell & Sons: London 1894), vol. 1, p. 328.
5. Aland, Kurt; Aland, Barbara (1995). The Text of the New Testament: An Introduction to the Critical Editions and to the Theory and Practice of Modern Textual Criticism. Erroll F. Rhodes (trans.). Grand Rapids: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company. p. 72. ISBN 978-0-8028-4098-1.
6. 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), p. XXIX.
7. "Liste Handschriften". Münster: Institute for New Testament Textual Research. Retrieved 27 August 2011.

Bibliography

• W. H. P. Hatch, The Principal Uncial Manuscripts of the New Testament, LXXII (Chicago, 1939).

External links

• Mss. Barocci at the Bodleian Library