Lectionary 12
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| form = Lectionary | number = ℓ 12 | image = | isize = | caption= | name = | sign = | text = Gospels | script = Greek | date = 13th-century | found = | now at = Bibliothèque nationale de France | cite = | size = | type = | cat = | hand = | note = Lectionary 12, designated by siglum ℓ 12 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering). It is a Greek manuscript of the New Testament, on vellum leaves. Palaeographically it has been assigned to the 13th-century.
Description
The codex contains Lessons from the Gospels of John, Matthew, Luke lectionary (Evangelistarium) with some lacunae.{{Cite book | last = Gregory | first = Caspar René | author-link = Caspar René Gregory | title = Textkritik des Neuen Testaments | publisher = J.C. Hinrichs | year = 1900 | location = Leipzig | volume = 1 | page = 388 | url = https://archive.org/stream/textkritikdesne00greggoog#page/n401/mode/2up It is written in Greek minuscule letters, on 366 parchment leaves (), 2 columns per page, 24 lines per page.
Text
Verse Matthew 12:47 is omitted as in codices Codex Sinaiticus, Vaticanus, Codex Regius, 1009, ff1, k, syrc, syrs, copsa. The omission is typical for the Alexandrian manuscripts.
In Matthew 13:13 it reads ινα βλεποντες μη βλεπωσιν και ακουοντες μη ακουωσιν και μη συνωσι μηποτε επιστρεψωσιν for οτι βλεποντες ου βλεπουσιν και ακουοντες ουκ ακουουσιν ουδε συνιουσιν (Β C Κ L W Δ Π); the reading of the codex is supported by ℓ 70 ℓ 80 ℓ 299 ℓ 850 ℓ 1084 ; some manuscripts read ινα βλεποντες μη βλεπωσιν και ακουοντες μη ακουωσιν και μη συνιωσιν μηποτε επιστρεψωσιν — Θ, f1, f13, Lect.
History
The manuscript is dated by the INTF to the 13th-century.
It was added to the list of the New Testament manuscripts by Wettstein.{{Cite book | last = Aland | first = Kurt | author-link = Kurt Aland | last2 = Aland | first2 = Barbara | author-link2 = Barbara Aland | others = Erroll F. Rhodes (trans.) | title = The Text of the New Testament: An Introduction to the Critical Editions and to the Theory and Practice of Modern Textual Criticism | publisher = William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company | year = 1995 | location = Grand Rapids | page = 72 | url = https://archive.org/details/textnewtestament00kurt | url-access = limited | isbn = 978-0-8028-4098-1}}
It was slightly examined by Wettstein, Scholz, and Paulin Martin. C. R. Gregory saw it in 1885.
The manuscript is cited in the critical editions of the Greek New Testament (UBS3).
The codex is located now in the Bibliothèque nationale de France (Gr. 310) in Paris.
Bibliography
- Jean-Pierre-Paul Martin, Description technique des manuscrits grecs relatifs au N. T., conservés dans les bibliothèques des Paris (Paris 1883), p. 141.
References
- [[Kurt Aland. 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.
- It contains musical notes.F. H. A. Scrivener, ''[[A Plain Introduction to the Criticism of the New Testament]]'' ([[George Bell & Sons]]: London 1894), vol. 1, p. 328.
- UBS3, p. 47
- "Liste Handschriften". Institute for New Testament Textual Research.
- [[Paulin Martin. Jean-Pierre-Paul Martin]], ''Description technique des manuscrits grecs relatifs au N. T., conservés dans les bibliothèques des Paris'' (Paris 1883), p. 141.
- ''The Greek New Testament'', ed. K. Aland, A. Black, C. M. Martini, B. M. Metzger, and [[Allen Wikgren. A. Wikgren]], in cooperation with INTF, ''United Bible Societies'', 3rd edition, (Stuttgart 1983), p. XXVIII.
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