Codex Tischendorfianus V

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Lectionary ℓ 293
Name	Tischendorfianus V
Text	Evangelistarium †
Date	8th century
Script	Greek
Now at	University of Leipzig
Size	27.5 cm by 21.5 cm
Type	Byzantine text-type

Codex Tischendorfianus V or Lectionary 293 (Gregory-Aland), designated by siglum ℓ 293 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering) is a Greek manuscript of the New Testament, on parchment. Palaeographically it has been assigned to the 8th century.^[1][2] Scrivener labelled it as 190^e.^[3]

Description

The codex contains lessons from the Gospel of John, Matthew, and Luke (Evangelistarium), on 89 parchment leaves (27.5 cm by 21.5 cm),^[4] with some lacunae.^[1] It is a palimpsest, the upper and younger text contains lessons from the Book of Psalms. It is dated to the 12th century.^[5]

The text is written in Greek uncial letters, in two columns per page, 20 lines per page. The manuscript contains weekday Gospel lessons.^[1] It contains music notes.^[4][3]

History

Scrivener and Gregory dated it to the 8th or 9th century.^[3][4] It is presently assigned by the INTF to the 8th century.^[1][2]

The manuscript was examined by Constantin von Tischendorf in 1843, who gave some extracts from the codex in his Anecdota.^[6]

The manuscript was added to the list of New Testament manuscripts by Scrivener (number 190^e) and Gregory (number 293^e). Gregory saw the manuscript in 1884.^[4]

The manuscript is not cited in the critical editions of the Greek New Testament (UBS3).^[7]

Currently the codex is housed at the University of Leipzig (Cod. Gr. 3), in Leipzig.^[1][2]

See also

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• List of New Testament lectionaries
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• Textual criticism
• Lectionary 292

Notes and references

1. ^ ^{a b c d e} Aland, Kurt; M. Welte, B. Köster, K. Junack (1994). Kurzgefasste Liste der griechischen Handschriften des Neues Testaments. Berlin, New York: Walter de Gruyter. p. 236. ISBN 3110119862. 
2. ^ ^{a b c} Handschriftenliste at the INTF
3. ^ ^{a b c} Scrivener, Frederick Henry Ambrose; Edward Miller (1894). A Plain Introduction to the Criticism of the New Testament, Vol. 1 (4th ed.). London: George Bell & Sons. p. 340. 
4. ^ ^{a b c d} Gregory, Caspar René (1900). Textkritik des Neuen Testaments, Vol. 1. Leipzig: J.C. Hinrichs’sche Buchhandlung. p. 412. http://www.archive.org/stream/textkritikdesne00greggoog#page/n425/mode/2up. 
5. ^ C. v. Tischendorf, Anecdota sacra et profana ex Oriente et Occidente allata (1861), p. XII.
6. ^ C. v. Tischendorf, Anecdota sacra et profana (1861), pp. 29 ff.
7. ^ 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.

Bibliography

• C. v. Tischendorf, Anecdota sacra et profana ex Oriente et Occidente allata (1861), pp. XII, 29–34.
• Gregory, Caspar René (1900). Textkritik des Neuen Testaments. 1. Leipzig: J.C. Hinrichs’sche Buchhandlung. p. 412. http://www.archive.org/stream/textkritikdesne00greggoog#page/n425/mode/2up. 

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