Lectionary 150

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form= Lectionary
number="l"¹⁵⁰


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text= Gospels
script= Greek
date= 995
found = John Covell in 1677 at Constantinople
now at= British Library
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note= Codex Harleianus ("l"¹⁵⁰), John 1:18

Lectionary 150, or "l"¹⁵⁰ in the Gregory-Aland numbering, is also known as Codex Harleianus. It is a Greek manuscript of the New Testament, on vellum leaves. [K. Aland, M. Welte, B. Köster, K. Junack, "Kurzgefasste Liste der griechischen Handschriften des Neues Testaments", (Berlin, New York: Walter de Gruyter, 1994), p. 48. ] It is written in compressed Greek Uncial letters, on 374 leaves, 2 columns per page, with ornaments. Capital letters and nomina sacra are in red ink. The codex includes ten leaves of paper containing a series of Lessons from the Gospels.

Description

The codex contains Lessons from the four Gospels lectionary ("Evangelistarium"). The image shows the text of John 1:18.

It is one of the most beautiful lectionary codices, with a scribal date of 27 May 995 A.D. "It is a most splendid specimen on the uncial class of Evangelistaria, and its text presents many instructive variations."
F.H. A. Scrivener, "A plain Introduction to the Criticism of the New Testament", (Cambridge, 1894), p. 218. ] According to the colophon it was written by a presbyter called Constantine.

Formerly it was held in Constantinople. In 1677 John Covell, chaplain of the English embassy in Constantinople, purchased this manuscript, and send it to John Mill (1645-1707), in London.The codex is now located in the British Library (MS Harl 5598).

See also

* List of New Testament lectionaries
* Textual criticism

Notes and references

Bibliography

F.H. Scrivener, "An Exact Transcript of the Codex Augiensis, to which is added a full Collation of Fifty Manuscripts", London 1859, pp. 47-50.