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Lectionary 41

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Text
  
Evangelistarion

Now at
  
Escorial

Type
  
Byzantine text-type

Script
  
Greek language

Date
  
11th-century

Size
  
25.2 cm by 18.2 cm

Hand
  
very elegant

Lectionary 41, designated 41 in the Gregory-Aland numbering, is a Greek manuscript of the New Testament, written on parchment leaves. Palaeographically it has been assigned to the 11th-century.

Contents

Description

The codex contains lessons from the Gospels of John, Matthew, Luke lectionary (Evangelistarium), on 204 parchment leaves (25.2 cm by 18.2 cm). The text is written in two columns per page, 21 lines per page, in Greek uncial letters. It contains musical notes.

It contains an elegantly written menologion (like in codex 43)

History

Formerly the manuscript belonged to Hurtado de Mendoza. It was examined by Moldenhauer, Emmanuel Miller, and Wilhelm Regel, professor in Petersburg.

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

Currently the codex is located in the Escorial (X. III. 12) in San Lorenzo de El Escorial.

References

Lectionary 41 Wikipedia