Lectionary 287, designated by
siglum ℓ ''287'' (in the
Gregory-Aland numbering) is a
Greek manuscript
A manuscript (abbreviated MS for singular and MSS for plural) was, traditionally, any document written by hand – or, once practical typewriters became available, typewritten – as opposed to mechanically printed or reproduced i ...
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 Chris ...
, on parchment.
Palaeographically it has been assigned to the 13th century.
[''Handschriftenliste'']
at the ''INTF''
Frederick Henry Ambrose Scrivener labelled it as 166
e.
Description
The codex contains lessons from the
Gospel of John
The Gospel of John ( grc, Εὐαγγέλιον κατὰ Ἰωάννην, translit=Euangélion katà Iōánnēn) is the fourth of the four canonical gospels. It contains a highly schematic account of the ministry of Jesus, with seven "sig ...
,
Matthew
Matthew may refer to:
* Matthew (given name)
* Matthew (surname)
* ''Matthew'' (ship), the replica of the ship sailed by John Cabot in 1497
* ''Matthew'' (album), a 2000 album by rapper Kool Keith
* Matthew (elm cultivar), a cultivar of the Chi ...
, and
Luke (''Evangelistarium''), on 201 parchment leaves (), with some
lacunae.
The text is written in Greek
minuscule letters, in two columns per page, 29 lines per page.
[ The manuscript contains weekday Gospel lessons.][
It contains the text of the Pericope Adulterae (John 8:3-11).][
]
History
Scrivener and Gregory dated the manuscript to the 13th century.[ It has been assigned by the ]Institute for New Testament Textual Research
The Institute for New Testament Textual Research (german: Institut für neutestamentliche Textforschung — INTF) at the University of Münster, Westphalia, Germany, is to research the textual history of the New Testament and to reconstruct its ...
to the 13th century.[
The manuscript was added to the list of New Testament manuscripts by Scrivener (number 166e) and Gregory (number 287e). Gregory saw the manuscript in 1886.][
The manuscript is not cited in the critical editions of the Greek New Testament (UBS3).][''The Greek New Testament'', ed. K. Aland, A. Black, C. M. Martini, B. M. Metzger, and A. Wikgren, in cooperation with INTF, ''United Bible Societies'', 3rd edition, (Stuttgart 1983), pp. XXVIII, XXX.]
The codex is housed at the '' Biblioteca Ambrosiana'' (D. 108 sup., fol. 3–203) in Milan
Milan ( , , Lombard: ; it, Milano ) is a city in northern Italy, capital of Lombardy, and the second-most populous city proper in Italy after Rome. The city proper has a population of about 1.4 million, while its metropolitan city ...
. The leaves 1–2,204 of the same codex are classified as lectionary 2352 (Gregory-Aland).[
]
See also
* List of New Testament lectionaries
* 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-li ...
* Textual criticism
Textual criticism is a branch of textual scholarship, philology, and of literary criticism that is concerned with the identification of textual variants, or different versions, of either manuscripts or of printed books. Such texts may range in da ...
* Lectionary 286
Notes and references
Bibliography
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Greek New Testament lectionaries
13th-century biblical manuscripts
Manuscripts of the Ambrosiana collections