New Testament manuscript | |
Text | Evangelistarium † |
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Date | 12th century |
Script | Greek |
Now at | Bodleian Library |
Size | 31.2 cm by 20.5 cm |
Hand | ill written |
Lectionary 211, designated by siglum ℓ 211 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering) is a Greek manuscript of the New Testament, on parchment. Palaeographically it has been assigned to the 12th century.[1][2] Scrivener labelled it by 218evl.[3] The manuscript has complex contents.
The codex contains lessons from the Gospels of John, Matthew, Luke lectionary (Evangelistarium), on 209 parchment leaves (31.2 cm by 20.5 cm).[3][4] The text is written in Greek minuscule letters, in two columns per page, 28-30 lines per page.[1][2] It contains pictures.[3][4] The first leaf contains the history of St. Varus and six martyrs.[3]
There are weekday Gospel lessons.[1]
It contains the text of Matthew 16:2b–3, Luke 22:43-44, and John 8:3-11 (dedicated to Pelagia).[4]
Luke 9:35
John 4:51
John 6: 42
It is a palimpsest, the lower text contains a Menaion, for January, was written in minuscule letters, in the 11th century.[1]
Scrivener dated the manuscript to the 14th century, Gregory dated it to the 12th or 13th century.[3][4] It is presently assigned by the INTF to the 12th century.[1][2]
The manuscript is cited in the critical editions of the Greek New Testament (UBS3,[8] UBS4.[9])
The manuscript was added to the list of New Testament manuscripts by Scrivener (number 218) and Gregory (number 211). C. R. Gregory saw it in 1883.[4]
Currently the codex is located in the Bodleian Library (Wake 18) at Oxford.[1][2]