Lectionary 19

Lectionary 19, designated by siglum 19 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering) is a Greek manuscript of the New Testament, written on vellum leaves. Palaeographically it has been assigned to the 13th-century.[1]

Lectionary 19
New Testament manuscript
TextEvangelistarion
Date13th-century
ScriptGreek
Found1661
Now atBodleian Library
Size31 cm by 22.5 cm
Noteneumes

Description

The codex contains lessons from the Gospels of John, Matthew, Luke lectionary (Evangelistarium), with lacunae. The text is written in Greek minuscule letters, on 322 parchment leaves (31 cm by 22.5 cm), 2 columns per page, 24 lines per page.[2] It contains the Byzantine musical notes – neumes.[2]

History

The codex was given in 1661 by Parthenius, Patriarch of Constantinople, to Heneage Finch, Earl of Winchelesa, British Ambassador at the court of sultan.[3] It was known as Codex Bodleianus 5.

It was added to the list of the New Testament manuscripts by Johann Jakob Wettstein.[4][5] It was examined by Mill (as Bodleianus 7) and Griesbach.[2] According to Mill this codex is Stephen's ϛ'.[3]

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

Currently the codex is located in the Bodleian Library (Auct. D. inf. 2.12) in Oxford.[1]

See also

Notes and 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. pp. 388–389.
  3. F. H. A. Scrivener, "A Plain Introduction to the Criticism of the New Testament" (George Bell & Sons: London 1894), Vol. 1, p. 329.
  4. 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.
  5. Wettstein, J. J. (1751). Novum Testamentum Graecum editionis receptae cum lectionibus variantibus codicum manuscripts. Amsterdam: Ex Officina Dommeriana. pp. 64–65.
  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.

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