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Lectionary 332

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Text
  
Evangelistarium †

Found
  
1874

Size
  
33.2 cm by 25 cm

Script
  
Greek language

Date
  
14th-century

Now at
  
British Library

Type
  
Byzantine text-type

Lectionary 332 (Gregory-Aland), designated by siglum 332 (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 not survived in complete condition.

Contents

Description

The original codex contained lessons from the Gospel of John, Matthew, Luke (Evangelistarium), with lacunae on 295 parchment leaves. The leaves are measured (33.2 cm by 25 cm).

The text is written in Greek minuscule letters, in two columns per page, 25 lines per page. It has illuminated head-pieces and initial letters.

The codex contains weekday Gospel lessons according to the Byzantine Church order.

History

Scrivener dated the manuscript to the late 11th-century. According to Gregory it was written in the 14th-century. It is presently assigned by the INTF to the 14th-century.

It was purchased for the British Museum in 1874.

The manuscript was added to the list of New Testament manuscripts by Scrivener (62e) and Gregory (number 332e). Gregory saw it in 1883.

Currently the codex is housed at the British Library (Add. 29713) in the London.

The fragment is not cited in critical editions of the Greek New Testament (UBS4, NA28).

References

Lectionary 332 Wikipedia