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Lectionary 29

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Text
  
Evangelistarion †

Script
  
Greek

Size
  
25.5 cm by 20 cm

Date
  
12th-century

Now at
  
Bodleian Library

Hand
  
elegantly written

Lectionary 29, designated by siglum 29 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), is a Greek manuscript of the New Testament on parchment. Palaeographically it has been assigned to the 12th-century.

Contents

Description

The codex contains lessons from the Gospels of John, Matthew, and Luke (Evangelistarium), with lacunae. It is written in Greek minuscule letters, on 156 parchment leaves (25.5 cm by 20 cm), 2 columns per page, 23 lines per page. It contains musical notes. The manuscript is "elegantly written but much worn".

History

The codex was merely examined by Griesbach. C. R. Gregory saw it in 1883.

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

Currently the codex is located in the Bodleian Library (Auct. D. inf. 2. 15) in Oxford.

References

Lectionary 29 Wikipedia