Oriental MS 426, bilinguical
Bohairic-
Arabic,
uncial manuscript of the
New Testament, on paper, now in the
British Library in London. It is dated to the 13th century. The manuscript is
lacunose
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Weathering, decay, and other damage to o ...
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Horner designated it by
siglum T.
Description
It contains the text of the
Gospel of John (lacks 1:1-13), in quarto, 147 paper leaves (24.3 x 16.5). After John follow some extracts from the New Testament (Ephesians 4:1-13; Matthew 16:13-19; Luke 19:1-10), with other matter. The text is written in two columns per page, 33 lines per page.
There is no a division according the Ammonian Sections and the
Eusebian Canons.
The
nomina sacra are written in an abbreviated way.
It lacks text of John 5:3.4 and the
Pericope Adulterae (John 7:53-8:11).
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History
The manuscript was purchased by Archdeacon Henry Tattam
Henry Tattam (28 December 1789 – 8 January 1868, Stanford Rivers, Essex) was a Church of England clergyman and Coptic scholar.
Life
Tattam was Rector of St Cuthbert's Bedford, 1822–1849, and from 1831 to 1849 also Rector of Great Woolstone, ...
's sale, in 1868.[George Horner]
''The Coptic Version of the New Testament in the Northern Dialect, otherwise called Memphitic and Bohairic''
1 vol. (1898), p. CXX Lightfoot
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examined only John 5 in the codex, Arthur Headlam
Arthur Cayley Headlam (2 August 1862 – 17 January 1947) was an English theologian who served as Bishop of Gloucester from 1923 to 1945.
Biography
Headlam was born in Whorlton, County Durham, the son of its vicar, Arthur William Headlam (1826 ...
examined a few places.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 maiora''
vol. III, p. 870.
Horner
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People
*Alison Horner (born 1966), British businesswoman
* Arthur Horner (dis ...
examined part of the manuscript with text of John. He collated its text twice, in 1890-1895 and used it in his edition of the Bohairic New Testament as a basis for the text of the Gospels.[
]
See also
* List of the Coptic New Testament manuscripts
Coptic-language manuscripts of the New Testament include some of the earliest and most important witnesses for textual criticism of the New Testament. Almost 1000 Coptic manuscripts of the New Testament have survived into the 21st century. The m ...
* Coptic versions of the Bible
* Biblical manuscript
A biblical manuscript is any handwritten copy of a portion of the text of the Bible. Biblical manuscripts vary in size from tiny scrolls containing individual verses of the Jewish scriptures (see ''Tefillin'') to huge polyglot codices (multi-ling ...
* Codex Marshall Or. 99
Codex Marshall Or. 6, is a Bohairic, uncial manuscript of the New Testament, on a paper. Palaeographically it has been assigned to the 16th century.
Description
It contains the text of the Gospel of John on 192 paper leaves (11.3 by 7). The t ...
* Oriental MS 1001
References
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Further reading
* George Horner
''The Coptic Version of the New Testament in the Northern Dialect, otherwise called Memphitic and Bohairic''
1 vol. (1898), p. CXX
Coptic New Testament manuscripts
13th-century biblical manuscripts
British Library oriental manuscripts