Lectionary 55
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| form = Lectionary | number = ℓ 55 | image = | isize = | caption= | name = | sign = | text = Evangelistarion, Apostolos | script = Greek | date = 1602 | found = | now at = State Historical Museum | cite = | size = | type = | cat = | hand = wretchedly written | note = Lectionary 55, designated by siglum ℓ 55 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), is a Greek manuscript of the New Testament, on paper leaves. It is dated by a colophon to the year 1602.{{Cite book | last = Aland | first = Kurt | author-link = Kurt Aland |author2=M. Welte |author3=B. Köster |author4=K. Junack | title = Kurzgefasste Liste der griechischen Handschriften des Neues Testaments | publisher = Walter de Gruyter | year = 1994 | location = Berlin, New York | page = 222 | isbn = 3-11-011986-2 }}
Description
The codex is an Euchologium with lessons from the Old Testament and 107 lessons from the New Testament. It is a lectionary (Evangelistarion, Apostolos),{{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 = 392 | url = https://archive.org/stream/textkritikdesne00greggoog#page/n405/mode/2up on 581 paper leaves (). It is written in Greek minuscule letters, in one column per page, in 18-24 lines per page.
History
The manuscript was written in Venice in 1602. It came from the monastery of Vatopedi on the Athos.{{Cite book | last = Scrivener | first = Frederick Henry Ambrose | author-link = Frederick Henry Ambrose Scrivener |author2=Edward Miller | title = A Plain Introduction to the Criticism of the New Testament | publisher = George Bell & Sons | year = 1861 | location = London | page = 214 The manuscript was examined by Matthaei.
The manuscript is sporadically cited in the critical editions of the Greek New Testament (UBS3).
Currently the codex is located in the State Historical Museum, (V. 264, S. 454) in Moscow.
References
- ''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. XXX.
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