Lectionary 19
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| form = Lectionary | number = ℓ 19 | image = | isize = | caption= | name = | sign = | text = Evangelistarion | script = Greek | date = 13th-century | found = 1661 | now at = Bodleian Library | cite = | size = | type = | cat = | hand = | note = neumes Lectionary 19, designated by siglum ℓ 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.
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 (), 2 columns per page, 24 lines per page.{{Cite book | last = Gregory | first = Caspar René | author-link = Caspar René Gregory | title = Textkritik des Neuen Testaments | publisher = J. C. Hinrichs | date = 1900 | location = Leipzig | volume = 1 | pages = 388–389 | url = https://archive.org/stream/textkritikdesne00greggoog#page/n401/mode/2up It contains the Byzantine musical notes – neumes.
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. It was known as Codex Bodleianus 5.
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 | isbn = 978-0-8028-4098-1}}{{cite book | last = Wettstein | first = J. J. | author-link = Johann Jakob Wettstein | title = Novum Testamentum Graecum editionis receptae cum lectionibus variantibus codicum manuscripts | publisher = Ex Officina Dommeriana | year = 1751 | location = Amsterdam | pages = 64–65 | url = https://archive.org/stream/hekainediatheken00clem#page/64/mode/2up
The manuscript is sporadically cited in the critical editions of the Greek New Testament (UBS3).
Currently the codex is located in the Bodleian Library (Auct. D. inf. 2.12) in Oxford.
Bibliography
- {{Cite book | last = Gregory | first = Caspar René | author-link = Caspar René Gregory | title = Textkritik des Neuen Testaments | publisher = Hinrichs | year = 1900 | location = Leipzig | volume = 1 | pages = 388–389 | 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.
- [[Frederick Henry Ambrose Scrivener. F. H. A. Scrivener]], "[[A Plain Introduction to the Criticism of the New Testament]]" ([[George Bell & Sons]]: London 1894), Vol. 1, p. 329.
- ''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. XXIX.
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