Oriental MS 1316

Oriental MS 1001, Bohairic-Arabic, uncial manuscript of the New Testament, on paper. It is dated to the year 1663. Horner designated the manuscript by siglum H3.[1]

Description

It contains a complete text of the four Gospels on 253 paper leaves (30 by 21 cm), in octavo. The text is written in two columns per page, 36 lines per page.[1]

It contains the Eusebian tables, Prolegomena, tables of the κεφαλαια before each Gospel, and pictures;[2] it is illuminated.[3] the Ammonian sections and a references to the Eusebian Canons in red.[1]

The nomina sacra are written in an abbreviated way.[4]

History

It is dated by a colophon to the year 1663.[1]

In 1721 it was presented to the Church of Our Lady and Saint George in Harat ar-Rum.[2] Lightfoot, Arthur Headlam examined the manuscript.[5]

Currently it is housed at the British Library (Oriental 1316) in London.

See also

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 George Horner, The Coptic Version of the New Testament in the Northern Dialect, otherwise called Memphitic and Bohairic, 1 vol. (1898), p. CI
  2. 1 2 Gregory, Caspar René (1902). Textkritik des Neuen Testaments. 2. Leipzig. p. 539.
  3. ↑ Scrivener, Frederick Henry Ambrose; Edward Miller (1894). A Plain Introduction to the Criticism of the New Testament, Vol. 2. London: George Bell & Sons. p. 113.
  4. ↑ George Horner, The Coptic Version of the New Testament in the Northern Dialect, otherwise called Memphitic and Bohairic, 1 vol. (1898), p. CII
  5. ↑ Constantin von Tischendorf, Novum Testamentum Graece Editio Octava Critica Maior, vol. III, p. 871

Further reading

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