Lectionary 88

Lectionary ℓ 88

New Testament manuscript
Text	Evangelistarion
Date	14th-century
Script	Greek
Now at	Bibliothèque nationale de France
Size	32.6 cm by 18 cm

Lectionary 88, designated by siglum ℓ 88 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), is a Greek manuscript of the New Testament, on paper leaves. Palaeographically it has been assigned to the 14th-century.[1]

Description

The codex contains lessons from the Gospels of John, Matthew, Luke lectionary (Evangelistarium) with numerous lacunae. It is written in Greek minuscule letters, on 190 paper leaves (32.6 cm by 18 cm). The writing stands in 2 columns per page, 22-26 lines per page.[2]

Two pages of the manuscript belong to the codex 0115.

History

The manuscript once belonged to Colbert's (as were ℓ 87, ℓ 89, ℓ 90, ℓ 91, ℓ 99, ℓ 100, ℓ 101).[3]

Scholz examined some passages of it. It was examined and described by Paulin Martin.[4] C. R. Gregory saw it in 1883.[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 (Gr. 314) in Paris.[1]

See also

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

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. 223. ISBN 3-11-011986-2.
2. Gregory, Caspar René (1900). Textkritik des Neuen Testaments. Vol. 1. Leipzig: J.C. Hinrichs. p. 395.
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. 333.
4. Jean-Pierre-Paul Martin, Description technique des manuscrits grecs, relatif au N. T., conservé dans les bibliothèques des Paris (Paris 1883), p. 158
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.