Lectionary 31

Lectionary ℓ 31
New Testament manuscript
NameCod. Norimberg.
TextEvangelistarion
Date12th-century
ScriptGreek
Now atNürnberg
Size22 cm by 18.9 cm
TypeCaesarean text-type

Lectionary 31, designated by siglum ℓ 31 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering). It is a Greek manuscript of the New Testament, on parchment leaves. Palaeographically it has been assigned to the 12th-century.

Description

The codex contains lessons from the Gospels of John, Matthew, Luke lectionary (Evangelistarium). The text is written in Greek minuscule letters, on 281 parchment leaves (22 cm by 18.9 cm), 1 column per page, 21 lines per page.

Michaelis remarked some textual similarities to the codices Codex Bezae (e.g. Luke 22:4), Codex Regius, 1 and 69.

Luke 9:35

It uses the longest reading αγαπητος εν ο ευδοκησα — as in codices C3, Codex Bezae, Codex Athous Lavrensis, ℓ 19, ℓ 47, ℓ 48, ℓ 49, ℓ 49m, ℓ 183, ℓ 183m, ℓ 211;

The manuscript is sporadically cited in the critical editions of the Greek New Testament (UBS3).

Currently the codex is located in the Stadtbibliothek (Ms. Cent. V appendix No. 40) in Nürnberg.

See also

Notes and references

  1. 1 2 3 K. Aland, M. Welte, B. Köster, K. Junack, Kurzgefasste Liste der griechischen Handschriften des Neues Testaments, (Berlin, New York: Walter de Gruyter, 1994), p. 220.
  2. ↑ Gregory, Caspar René (1900). Textkritik des Neuen Testaments. Vol. 1. Leipzig: J.C. Hinrichs. p. 390.
  3. ↑ Scrivener, Frederick Henry Ambrose; Edward Miller (1894). A Plain Introduction to the Criticism of the New Testament. Vol. 1 (4 ed.). London: George Bell & Sons. p. 330.
  4. ↑ 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. 246.
  5. ↑ 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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