Lesson 6

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New Testament manuscripts
Papyri • Uncials • Minuscules • Lectionaries
Lectionary ℓ 6
text Evangelistarion †, Apostolos
language Greek - Arabic
date 1265
Storage location Leiden University Library
size 19 × 13.5 cm

Lectionary 6 (named sigla ℓ 6 after the numbering by Gregory-Aland ) is a Greco-Arabic diglot manuscript of the New Testament on paper. It is dated to the year 1265 by its colophon and represents the divine service of the Holy Week of the Coptic Church in and around Alexandria.

description

The codex contains sections from the Acts of the Apostles, the Letters of the Apostles ( Epistle , Apostolos ), the Psalms and some pericopes from the Gospels ( Evangelistarium ), more specifically liturgical readings from Palm Sunday to the Saturday after the Resurrection. It was described in Greek lowercase letters ( minuscule ) on 275 sheets of paper (19 cm × 13.5 cm). Each page contains 2 columns with 18 lines each.

The manuscript was examined by Wettstein and Dermount. Anton Baumstark managed to classify the liturgy correctly in 1913.

The code is now in the Leiden University Library (Or 243) in Leiden .

See also

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c K. Aland , M. Welte, B. Köster, K. Junack: Brief list of the Greek manuscripts of the New Testament , (Berlin, New York: Walter de Gruyter , 1994), p. 219.
  2. ^ FHA Scrivener : A Plain Introduction to the Criticism of the New Testament . London, 1861, p. 212.
  3. ↑ a b C. R. Gregory : Textual Criticism of the New Testament . Leipzig 1900, Volume 1, p. 387.

literature

  • WJ de Jonge: Joseph Scaliger's Greek - Arabic Lectionary . In: Quaerendo 5, Amsterdam, 1975, pp. 143-172. Reprint: Quaestiones Leidenses. Twelve studies on Leiden University Library and Its Holdings ... . Leiden: University Library 1975, pp. 179-208.
  • Anton Baumstark : A Greek-Arabic pericope book of the Coptic rite . In: Oriens Christianus 11 (1913), pp. 142–144.
  • ders., The Leyden Greek-Arabic Pericope Book for Holy and Easter Week . In: Oriens Christianus 2nd Ser. 4, pp. 38-58 (1915).
  • Heinzgerd Brakmann: On the position of Parisinus graecus 325 in the history of the Alexandrian-Egyptian liturgy . In: Studi sull'Oriente Cristiano 3, 1 (Roma 1999) 97-110.