Lectionary 21

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Lectionary 21
New Testament manuscript
TextEvangelistarion
Date14th-century
ScriptGreek
Now atBodleian Library
Size24 cm by 19.5 cm
Handcoarsely written

Lectionary 21, designated by siglum 21 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering). It is a Greek manuscript of the New Testament, on vellum leaves. Palaeographically it has been assigned to the 14th-century.[1]

Description[edit]

The codex contains lessons from the Gospels of Matthew, Luke lectionary (Evangelistarium), with numerous lacunae. It has not lessons from Gospel of John. It is written in Greek minuscule letters, on 59 parchment leaves (24 cm by 19.5 cm), 2 columns per page, 28 lines per page.[1] The leaves follow in the order 1–3, 15, 4-11, 16.[2] The manuscript is "coarsely written".[3]

History[edit]

Formerly it was known as Codex Seldeni 4. It was added to the list of the New Testament manuscripts by Wettstein.[4][5] The codex was examined by Mill (as Seld. 4) and Griesbach. C. R. Gregory saw it in 1883.[2]

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 (Arch. Selden. B. 56) in Oxford.[1]

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Notes and references[edit]

  1. ^ a b c K. Aland, M. Welte, B. Köster, K. Junack, Kurzgefasste Liste der griechischen Handschriften des Neues Testaments, (Berlin, New York: Walter de Gruyter, 1994), p. 220.
  2. ^ a b Gregory, Caspar René (1900). Textkritik des Neuen Testaments. Vol. 1. Leipzig: J.C. Hinrichs. p. 389.
  3. ^ F. H. A. Scrivener, A Plain Introduction to the Criticism of the New Testament (George Bell & Sons: London 1861), p. 213.
  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. p. 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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