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Lectionary 313

Lectionary 313 (Gregory-Aland), designated by siglum ℓ 313 is a Greek manuscript of the New Testament, on parchment. Palaeographically it has been assigned to the 14th-century. The manuscript has survived in a fragmentary condition.

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Lectionary 313
New Testament manuscript
folio 1 recto of the codex
folio 1 recto of the codex
TextEvangelistarium †
Date14th-century
ScriptGreek
Found1864
Now atUniversity of Michigan Library
Size34.5 cm by 28 cm
TypeByzantine text-type

Lectionary 313 (Gregory-Aland), designated by siglum 313 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering) is a Greek manuscript of the New Testament, on parchment. Palaeographically it has been assigned to the 14th-century. The manuscript has survived in a fragmentary condition.

Description

The codex contains Lessons for selected days only from the Gospels of John, Matthew, Luke lectionary (Evangelistarium) with some lacunae.1 It is written in Greek minuscule letters, on 209 parchment leaves (34.5 cm by 28 cm), 2 columns per page, 21 lines per page.23 According to the CSNTM description the manuscript has 212 leaves. There are no interesting or significant images.4

The codex contains the weekday Gospel Lessons (Evangelistarium) according to the Byzantine Church order.23

History

Gregory dated the manuscript to the 14th-century.1 It has been assigned by the Institute for New Testament Textual Research (INTF) to the 14th-century.23

Of the history of the codex 313 nothing is known until 1864, when it was in the possession of a dealer at Janina in Epeiros. It was then purchased from him by a representative of Baroness Burdett-Coutts (1814–1906), a philanthropist,5 together with other Greek manuscripts (among them lectionaries 314 and 315)1 which were transported to England in 1870–1871.6

The manuscript was added to the list of New Testament manuscripts by F. H. A. Scrivener (494) Caspar René Gregory (number 313e).1

It used to be held in London (Burdett-Coutts II. 5).1 The codex is now housed in the University of Michigan Library (Ms. 33) in Ann Arbor.23

The manuscript is not cited in critical editions of the Greek New Testament (UBS4,7 NA288).

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Notes and references

  1. Gregory, Caspar René (1900). Textkritik des Neuen Testaments. Vol. 1. Leipzig: J.C. Hinrichs’sche Buchhandlung. p. 414.
  2. Aland, Kurt; M. Welte; B. Köster; K. Junack (1994). Kurzgefasste Liste der griechischen Handschriften des Neues Testaments. Berlin, New York: Walter de Gruyter. p. 238. ISBN 3-11-011986-2.
  3. "Liste Handschriften". Münster: Institute for New Testament Textual Research. Retrieved 29 September 2013.
  4. Images of lectionary 313 at the CSNTM
  5. Parker, Franklin (1995). George Peabody, a biography. Vanderbilt University Press. p. 107. ISBN 9780826512567.
  6. Robert Mathiesen, An Important Greek Manuscript Rediscovered and Redated (Codex Burdett-Coutts III.42), The Harvard Theological Review, Vol. 76, No. 1 (Jan., 1983), pp. 131–133.
  7. Aland, B.; Aland, K.; J. Karavidopoulos, C. M. Martini, B. Metzger, A. Wikgren (1993). The Greek New Testament (4 ed.). Stuttgart: United Bible Societies. p. 21*. ISBN 978-3-438-05110-3.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  8. Nestle, Eberhard et Erwin (2001). Novum Testamentum Graece. communiter ediderunt: B. et K. Aland, J. Karavidopoulos, C. M. Martini, B. M. Metzger (27 ed.). Stuttgart: Deutsche Bibelgesellschaft. p. 814. ISBN 978-3-438-05100-4.
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