Kenneth Willis Clark Collection
The Duke University Library's Kenneth Willis Clark Collection of Greek Manuscripts contains 98 manuscripts , both scrolls and codices, dated from the 9th to the 17th centuries.
Professor H. Branscomb of the Duke Divinity School bought a manuscript of a Greek New Testament in a Munich bookstore. When it arrived at the library, it was named Duke Greek Ms. 1 . This happened on February 19, 1931 and was the beginning of the collection. Although the original intention was to collect only New Testament manuscripts, the collection today contains a range of different materials.
This collection also includes 27 manuscripts containing New Testament texts. Below that are these numbers - Mss. 4 , 5 , 6 , 15 , 22 , 25 , 31 , 38 , 60 and 64 . Ms. 60, also known as the Codex Daltonianus , is the most notable in this group. It was written in the second half of the 11th century and contains commentaries on the four Gospels .
There are also some lessonaries in the collection represented by MSS. 1 , 2 , 10 , 12 , 20, 24 , 27 , 28 , 39 , 43 , 65 , 82 , 83 , 85.
Two lessonaries are particularly noteworthy: Ms 65 and 85. Ms 65 ( ℓ 1839 ) was written in the 11th century. Ms. 85 ( ℓ 451 ) is signed by Clemet the monk who wrote it on July 20, indiction 5, in the year 6560 [d. H. 1052 AD ]. This signature makes it one of the earliest dated Greek lectionary manuscripts. Another manuscript, Ms. 39, was written by the scribe Luke. A large format lectionary was written on paper and was produced between 1626 and 1629.
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Bibliography
- Clark Kenneth Willis, "Greek New Testament Manuscripts in Duke University Library," Library Notes, no. 27 (April 1953).