Huntington 17 is a bilingual

Bohairic Coptic (Bohairic Coptic: , ) is a language family of closely related dialects, representing the most recent developments of the Egyptian language, and historically spoken by the Copts, starting from the third-century AD in Roman Egypt. Coptic ...

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of the

New Testament The New Testament grc, Ἡ Καινὴ Διαθήκη, transl. ; la, Novum Testamentum. (NT) is the second division of the Christian biblical canon. It discusses the teachings and person of Jesus, as well as events in first-century Christ ...

, on a paper. It is dated by a colophon to the year 1174. It is the oldest manuscript with complete text of the four

Gospel Gospel originally meant the Christian message ("the gospel"), but in the 2nd century it came to be used also for the books in which the message was set out. In this sense a gospel can be defined as a loose-knit, episodic narrative of the words an ...

s in Bohairic.

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It contains the text of the four

s on 457 paper leaves (25.3 by 17.5 cm). The text is written in two columns per page, 20 lines per page. It contains a great number of marginal additions inserted by a later hand. Among these marginal additions it has the doxology in Matthew 6:13, in Luke 1:28 phrase are written in smaller hand; Luke 22:43–44 (the agony); 23:17; 23:34; Pericope Adultera (John 7:53-8:11). On the other hand, the descent of the angel (John 5:3.4), which is wanting in many Bohairic manuscripts, stands in the text here. The text is not divided according to the Ammonian Sections. It contains portraits of the Evangelists before each Gospel. It has some itacistic errors.George Horner
''The Coptic Version of the New Testament in the Northern Dialect, otherwise called Memphitic and Bohairic''
1 vol. (1898), p. XXXVIII It has some notes at the margin from later hand. According to Gregory its text is very good. It contains two endings of the

Gospel of Mark The Gospel of Mark), or simply Mark (which is also its most common form of abbreviation). is the second of the four canonical gospels and of the three synoptic Gospels. It tells of the ministry of Jesus from his baptism by John the Baptist to h ...

History

The manuscript was written by Joannes, a monk and scribe,

Constantin von Tischendorf Lobegott Friedrich Constantin (von) Tischendorf (18 January 18157 December 1874) was a German biblical scholar. In 1844, he discovered the world's oldest and most complete Bible dated to around the mid-4th century and called Codex Sinaiticus a ...

''Editio Octava Critica maiora''
vol. III, p. 869. in 1174. The manuscript was brought by Wilkins in 1683 from Egypt. It was examined by J B Lightfoot and

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(1889).

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used it in his edition of the Bohairic New Testament as a basis for the text of the Gospels.George Horner
''The Coptic Version of the New Testament in the Northern Dialect, otherwise called Memphitic and Bohairic''
1-2 vol. (1898). Currently it is housed at the

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(Huntington 17) in

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In the Fihrist Union Catalogue of Manuscripts from the Islamicate World Coptic New Testament manuscripts 12th-century biblical manuscripts Bodleian Library collection

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