Lectionary 300
| New Testament manuscript | |
| Name | Gospel of Theodosius |
|---|---|
| Text | Evangelistarium |
| Date | 11th-century |
| Script | Greek |
| Now at | Saint Catherine's Monastery |
| Size | 28 cm by 21.5 cm |
| Type | Byzantine text-type |
| Hand | written in gold |
Lectionary 300, designated by
Description
The codex contains lessons from the Gospel of John, Matthew, and Luke (Evangelistarium) on 204 parchment leaves (28 cm by 21.5 cm).[1] The text is written in large golden letters described by at least one observer as beautiful.[2] It contains rough breathing, smooth breathing, accents, and some images.[3] The text is divided into verses as in modern editions of the Bible.[3]
The text is written in Greek uncial letters in two columns per page, 16 lines per page. The manuscript contains lessons for selected days,[1][4] opening with the Gospel lessons for the first five days of Easter week and followed by 65 more lessons from other parts of the yearly services.[3]
History
According to tradition it was supposedly written by the
The manuscript was probably seen in 1761 by the Italian traveller, Vitaliano Donati, when he visited the Saint Catherine's Monastery in Sinai. His diary, published in 1879, notes:
"In questo monastero ritrovai una quantità grandissima di codici membranacei... ve ne sono alcuni che mi sembravano anteriori al settimo secolo, ed in ispecie una Bibbia in membrane bellissime, assai grandi, sottili, e quadre, scritta in carattere rotondo e belissimo; conservano poi in chiesa un Evangelistario greco in caractere d'oro rotondo, che dovrebbe pur essere assai antico".[6]
In this monastery I found a great number of parchment codices ... there are some which seemed to be written before the seventh century, and especially a Bible (made) of beautiful, very large, thin and square parchments, written in round and very beautiful letters; moreover there are also in the church a Greek Evangelistarium in gold and round letters, it should be very old.
The "Bible on beautiful vellum" noted above is probably the Codex Sinaiticus and the gold evangelistarium is likely Lectionary 300.[7]
Others who saw it later include
The manuscript is not cited in the critical editions of the Greek New Testament (UBS3,[8] UBS4[9]).
The codex is currently housed at the Saint Catherine's Monastery (Gr. 204) in Sinai Peninsula.[1][4]
See also
Notes and references
- ^ ISBN 3-11-011986-2.
- ^ a b c Gregory, Caspar René (1900). Textkritik des Neuen Testaments. Vol. 1. Leipzig: J.C. Hinrichs. p. 413.
- ^ a b c d e f Scrivener, Frederick Henry Ambrose; Edward Miller (1894). A Plain Introduction to the Criticism of the New Testament. Vol. 1 (4th ed.). London: George Bell & Sons. p. 348.
- ^ a b c "Liste Handschriften". Münster: Institute for New Testament Textual Research. Retrieved 15 March 2011.
- ^ a b Victor Gardthausen, Catalogus codicum Graecorum Sinaiticorum (1886), pp. 40–41. (Source is in Greek and Latin)
- ^ Lumbroso, G. (1879). Atti della R. Accademia dei Lincei, p. 501.
- ^ Lake, Kirsopp (1911). Codex Sinaiticus Petropolitanus: The New Testament, the Epistle of Barnabas and the Shepherd of Hermas. Oxford: Clarendon Press. p. V.
- ISBN 9783438051103. (UBS3)
- ISBN 978-3-438-05110-3. (UBS4).
Bibliography
- Gregory, Caspar René (1900). Textkritik des Neuen Testaments. Vol. 1. Leipzig: J.C. Hinrichs. p. 413.
- Scrivener, Frederick Henry Ambrose; Edward Miller (1894). A Plain Introduction to the Criticism of the New Testament. Vol. 1 (4th ed.). London: George Bell & Sons. p. 348.
- Victor Gardthausen, Catalogus codicum Graecorum Sinaiticorum (Oxonii e typographeo Clarendoniano, 1886), pp. 40–41.
External links
- "Liste Handschriften". Münster: Institute for New Testament Textual Research. Retrieved 15 March 2011.