Codex Marshall Or. 5

Codex Marshall Or. 5, is a Bohairic-Greek, uncial manuscript of the New Testament, on a paper. Palaeographically it has been assigned to the 14th century.^[1]

Description

It contains the text of the four Gospels on 265 paper leaves (24.7 by 17.5). The text is written in 1 column per page, 27 lines per page.^[1] The titles and initials are illuminated. It contains the Ammonian Sections, the Eusebian Canons, numerals of the κεφαλαια (Coptic and Greek) at the margin, and pictures.^[1]

The manuscript contains the additions in Luke 22:43.44 (the agony); 23:17.34; John 5:3.4 (the descent of the angel); Pericope Adulterae (7:53-8:11), but omits Matthew 18:11.^[2][3]

In the catalogue the date of a donation is given as Mart 1498 A.D. The manuscript was examined by Lighfoot and Headlam.^[1] Horner used it in his edition of the Bohairic New Testament.^[4]

Currently it is housed at the Bodleian Library (Marshall Or. 5) in Oxford.

See also

• Coptic versions of the Bible
• Biblical manuscript
• Huntington MS 17
• Huntington MS 20
• Codex Marshall Or. 6

References

1. ^ ^{a b c d} Gregory, Caspar René (1902). Textkritik des Neuen Testaments. 2. Leipzig. p. 538. http://www.archive.org/stream/textkritikdesne01greggoog#page/n71/mode/2up. 
2. ^ Scrivener, Frederick Henry Ambrose; Edward Miller (1894). A Plain Introduction to the Criticism of the New Testament. 2. London: George Bell & Sons. p. 112. 
3. ^ Constantin von Tischendorf, Novum Testamentum Graece Editio Octava Critica Maior, vol. III, p. 849.
4. ^ George Horner, The Coptic Version of the New Testament in the Northern Dialect, otherwise called Memphitic and Bohairic, 4 vols. (1898-1905; repr. Osnabrück: 1969).

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