New Testament manuscript | |
Text | Evangelistarium † |
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Date | 11th-century |
Script | Greek |
Now at | British Library |
Size | 32.8 cm by 25.8 cm |
Type | Byzantine text-type |
Note | palimpsest |
Lectionary 334 (Gregory-Aland), designated by siglum ℓ 334 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering) [1] is a Greek manuscript of the New Testament, on parchment. Palaeographically it has been assigned to the 11th-century. It is a palimpsest The manuscript has not survived in complete condition.
The original codex contained lessons from the Gospel of Matthew (Evangelistarium), with lacunae [2] on 65 parchment leaves. The leaves are measured (32.8 cm by 25.8 cm). [3] [4]
The text is written in Greek minuscule letters, in two columns per page, 22 lines per page. [3] [4]
It is a palimpsest. The upper text contains a menaion. [3] [4] According to the colophon it was written by Ignatius, Metropolitan of Selymbria in Thrace, in the year 1431. [5]
The codex contains Gospel lessons according to the Byzantine Church order. [3] [4]
Scrivener dated the manuscript to the 8th-century, Gregory dated it to the 11th-century. [5] [2] It is presently assigned by the INTF to the 11th-century. [3] [4]
The manuscript was added to the list of New Testament manuscripts by Scrivener (282e) [5] and Gregory (number 334e). [2] It was examined by T. K. Abbott and Mahaffy. Gregory saw it in 1883. [2]
Formerly it was held in Blenheim (3. D. 13). [5] Currently the codex is housed at the British Library (Add MS 31919) in London. [3] [4]
The fragment is not cited in critical editions of the Greek New Testament (UBS4, [6] NA27 [7]).
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