Lectionary 15
title: "Lectionary 15" type: doc version: 1 created: 2026-02-28 author: "Wikipedia contributors" status: active scope: public tags: ["greek-new-testament-lectionaries", "13th-century-biblical-manuscripts"] topic_path: "general/greek-new-testament-lectionaries" source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lectionary_15" license: "CC BY-SA 4.0" wikipedia_page_id: 0 wikipedia_revision_id: 0
| form = Lectionary | number = ℓ 15 | 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 15, designated by siglum ℓ 15 (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 310 parchment leaves (), 2 columns per page, 22 or 23 lines per page.
In Luke 15:21 it has additional reading ποιησον με ως ενα των μισθιων σου; the reading is supported by Sinaiticus, Vaticanus, Bezae, Monacensis, 33, 700, 1195, 1216, 1230, 1241, 1253, 1344, ℓ 13, ℓ 60, ℓ 80, ℓ 185.
The manuscript was slightly examined by Scholz, Paulin Martin, and C. R. Gregory in 1885.
It was added to the list of the New Testament manuscripts by Johann Jakob 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}} The manuscript is sporadically cited in the critical editions of the Greek New Testament (UBS3).
Currently the codex is located in the Bibliothèque nationale de France (Gr. 302) in Paris.
Bibliography
- {{Cite book | last = Gregory | first = Caspar René | author-link = Caspar René Gregory | title = Textkritik des Neuen Testaments | publisher = J.C. Hinrichs'sche Buchhandlung | year = 1900 | location = Leipzig | volume = 1 | page = 388 | url = https://archive.org/stream/textkritikdesne00greggoog#page/n401/mode/2up
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.
- ''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. 277.
- [[Paulin Martin. Jean-Pierre-Paul Martin]], ''Description technique des manuscrits grecs, relatif au N. T., conservé dans les bibliotheques des Paris'' (Paris 1883), p. 142.
- ''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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