Oriental MS 425

Oriental MS 425, bilinguical Bohairic-Arabic, uncial manuscript of the New Testament, on paper. It is dated by a colophon to the year 1308. The manuscript is lacunose.

Description

It contains the text of the four Gospels on 164 paper leaves (25.4 by 18.5 cm) with a large lacunae (Luke, John 1:1-19:6; 20:13-21:13). The text is written in two columns per page, 33 lines per page.^[1] It contains the Eusebian tables, tables of the κεφαλαια, numerals of the κεφαλαια are given in Coptic and Greek, the Ammonian Sections, a references to the Eusebian Canons, and pictures.^[2]

It lacks text of Matthew 18:11.^[2]

History

The manuscript was written by Joannes, a scribe.^[3]

The manuscript was purchased by Archdeacon Henry Tattam's sale.^[2] The manuscript was examined by Lightfoot and Arthur Headlam.^[1]

Horner saw the manuscript in 1892. He used it in his edition of the Bohairic New Testament as a basis for the text of the Gospels.^[4]

Currently it is housed at the British Library (Oriental 425) in London.

See also

• List of the Coptic New Testament manuscripts
• Coptic versions of the Bible
• Biblical manuscript
• Codex Marshall Or. 99
• Oriental MS 426

References

1. ^ ^{a b} Gregory, Caspar René (1902). Textkritik des Neuen Testaments. 2. Leipzig. p. 538. http://www.archive.org/stream/textkritikdesne01greggoog#page/n71/mode/2up. 
2. ^ ^{a b c} Scrivener, Frederick Henry Ambrose; Edward Miller (1894). A Plain Introduction to the Criticism of the New Testament, Vol. 2. London: George Bell & Sons. p. 112. 
3. ^ Constantin von Tischendorf, Editio Octava maiora, vol. III, p. 870.
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).

Further reading

• George Horner, The Coptic Version of the New Testament in the Northern Dialect, otherwise called Memphitic and Bohairic, 1 vol. (1898), pp. XCVIII-CI