Lectionary 58

Lectionary ℓ 58

New Testament manuscript
Text	Evangelistarion
Date	16th-century
Script	Greek
Now at	Bibliothèque nationale de France
Size	28 cm by 21 cm

Lectionary 58, designated by siglum ℓ 58 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), is a Greek manuscript of the New Testament, on paper leaves. Palaeographically it has been assigned to the 16th century.[1]

Description

The codex contains only five lessons from the Gospel of Matthew and Gospel of Luke. It is a lectionary (Evangelistarion).[2] It is written in Greek minuscule letters, on 49 paper leaves (28 cm by 21 cm). Written in one column per page, in 10–11 lines per page.[1]

History

The manuscript was brought from some church in Greece. It was added to the list of New Testament manuscripts by Scholz.[3]

It was examined and described by Paulin Martin[4] C. R. Gregory saw it in 1884.[2]

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

Currently the codex is located in the Bibliothèque nationale de France, (Suppl. Gr. 50) in Paris.^[1]

See also

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

Notes and references

1. Aland, Kurt; M. Welte; B. Köster; K. Junack (1994). Kurzgefasste Liste der griechischen Handschriften des Neues Testaments. Berlin, New York: Walter de Gruyter. p. 222. ISBN 3-11-011986-2.
2. Gregory, Caspar René (1900). Textkritik des Neuen Testaments. Vol. 1. Leipzig: J.C. Hinrichs. pp. 392–393.
3. Scrivener, Frederick Henry Ambrose; Edward Miller (1894). A Plain Introduction to the Criticism of the New Testament. Vol. 1 (4 ed.). London: George Bell & Sons. p. 331.
4. Jean-Pierre-Paul Martin, Description technique des manuscrits grecs, relatif au N. T., conservé dans les bibliothèques des Paris (Paris 1883), p. 104
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.