Text Evangelistarium Now at Venice Type Byzantine text-type Script Greek language | Date 11th century Size 31.5 cm by 26 cm Note illuminated | |
Lectionary 279, designated by siglum ℓ 279 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering) is a Greek manuscript of the New Testament, on parchment. Palaeographically it has been assigned to the 11th century. Frederick Henry Ambrose Scrivener labelled it as 184e,
Contents
The manuscript has complex contents.
Description
The codex contains lessons from the Gospel of John, Matthew, and Luke (Evangelistarium).
The text is written in Greek minuscule letters, on 411 parchment leaves (31.5 cm by 26 cm), in two columns per page, 21-23 lines per page. The manuscript contains weekday Gospel lessons.
The manuscript is bound in red velvet, and according to Scrivener in excellent preservation. It "is very splendidly illuminated".
It contains text of the pericope John 8:3-11.
History
Scrivener dated the manuscript to the 14th century, and Gregory to the 12th century. It has been assigned by the Institute for New Testament Textual Research (INTF) to the 11th century.
The manuscript was written in Constantinople.
The manuscript was added to the list of New Testament manuscripts by Scrivener (number 184e) and Gregory (number 279e). Gregory saw the manuscript in 1886.
The manuscript is not cited in the critical editions of the Greek New Testament (UBS3).
The codex is housed at the Istituto Ellenico di Studi Bizantini e Postbizantini (A') in Venice, Italy.