Lectionary 6
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| form = Lectionary | number = ℓ 6 | image = | isize = | caption= | name = | sign = | text = Evangelistarion †, Apostolos | script = Greek-Arabic | date = 1265 | found = | now at = Leiden University Library | cite = | size = | type = | cat = | hand = | note = Lectionary 6, designated by siglum ℓ 6 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering). It is a Greek-Arabic diglot manuscript of the New Testament, on paper leaves, dated by a colophon to the year 1265.
Description
The codex contains Lessons from the Acts, Epistles lectionary (Apostolos), Psalms, but a few Lessons from the Gospels (Evangelistarium). It is written in Greek uncial letters, on 275 paper leaves (), 2 columns per page, 18 lines per page.
In Matthew 23:35 phrase υιου βαραχιου (son of Barachi'ah) is omitted; this omission is supported only by Codex Sinaiticus, codex 59 (by the first hand), two other Evangelistaria (ℓ 13, and ℓ 185), and citations in Eusebius.{{Cite book | last = Scrivener | first = Frederick Henry Ambrose | authorlink = Frederick Henry Ambrose Scrivener |author2=Edward Miller | title = A Plain Introduction to the Criticism of the New Testament | publisher = George Bell & Sons | year = 1894 | location = London | edition = 4 | volume = 1 | page = 342 | url = | doi = | id = | isbn =
History
It was examined by Wettstein and Dermount.{{Cite book | last = Gregory | first = Caspar René | authorlink = Caspar René Gregory | title = Textkritik des Neuen Testaments | publisher = Hinrichs | year = 1900 | location = Leipzig | volume = 1 | page = 387 | url = https://archive.org/stream/textkritikdesne00greggoog#page/n399/mode/2up | isbn = | last = Aland | first = Kurt | authorlink = Kurt Aland | last2 = Aland | first2 = Barbara | authorlink2 = 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 = | isbn = 978-0-8028-4098-1}}
The manuscript is sporadically cited in the critical editions of the Greek New Testament of UBS (UBS3).
The codex now is located in the Leiden University Library (Or. 243) at Leiden.
References
Bibliography
- Jacobus Dermout, Collectanea Critica in Novum Testamentum, Leiden 1825.
- W. J. de Jonge, Joseph Scaliger's Greek – Arabic Lectionary, Quaerendo 5 (Amsterdam, 1975), pp. 143–172.
- Anton Baumstark, Das Leydener griechisch-arabische Perikopenbuch für die Kar- und Osterwoche, Oriens Christ II, 4 (1915), pp. 38–58.
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]]" (London, 1894), vol. 1, p. 328.
- ''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.
- "Liste Handschriften". Institute for New Testament Textual Research.
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