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Lectionary 16

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Text
  
Evangelistarion

Script
  
Greek

Date
  
12th-century

Size
  
27 cm by 21.6 cm

Now at
  
Bibliothèque nationale de France

Lectionary 16, designated by siglum 16 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering). It is a Greek manuscript of the New Testament, on vellum leaves. Palaeographically it has been assigned to the 12th-century.

Description

The codex contains lessons from the Gospels of John, Matthew, Luke lectionary (Evangelistarium), with numerous lacunae. It is written in Greek minuscule letters, on 199 parchment leaves (27 cm by 21.6 cm), 2 columns per page, 18-20 lines per page.

Currently the codex is located in the Bibliothèque nationale de France (Gr. 297) in Paris.

It was added to the list of the New Testament manuscripts by Johann Jakob Wettstein. It was slightly examined by Scholz and Paulin Martin. C. R. Gregory saw it in 1885.

The manuscript is not cited in the critical editions of the Greek New Testament (UBS3).

References

Lectionary 16 Wikipedia