Oriental MS 426

Oriental MS 426, bilinguical Bohairic-Arabic, uncial manuscript of the New Testament, on paper. It is dated to the 13th century. The manuscript is lacunose.

Horner designated it by siglum T.

Description

It contains the text of the Gospel of John (lacks 1:1-13), in quarto, 147 paper leaves (24.3 x 16.5). After John follow some extracts from the New Testament (Ephesians 4:1-13; Matthew 16:13-19; Luke 19:1-10), with other matter. The text is written in two columns per page, 33 lines per page.^[1][2]

There is no a division according the Ammonian Sections and the Eusebian Canons.

The nomina sacra are written in an abbreviated way.

It lacks text of John 5:3.4 and the Pericope Adulterae (John 7:53-8:11).^[2]

History

The manuscript was purchased by Archdeacon Henry Tattam's sale, in 1868.^[3] Lightfoot examined only John 5 in the codex, Arthur Headlam examined a few places.^[4]

Horner examined part of the manuscript with text of John. He collated its text twice, in 1890-1895 and used it in his edition of the Bohairic New Testament as a basis for the text of the Gospels.^[3][1]

Currently it is housed at the British Library (Oriental 426) in London.

See also

• List of the Coptic New Testament manuscripts
• Coptic versions of the Bible
• Biblical manuscript
• Codex Marshall Or. 99
• Oriental MS 1001

References

1. ^ ^{a b} Gregory, Caspar René (1902). Textkritik des Neuen Testaments. 2. Leipzig. pp. 538–539. http://www.archive.org/stream/textkritikdesne01greggoog#page/n71/mode/2up. 
2. ^ ^{a b} 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. ^ ^{a b} George Horner, The Coptic Version of the New Testament in the Northern Dialect, otherwise called Memphitic and Bohairic, 1 vol. (1898), p. CXX
4. ^ Constantin von Tischendorf, Editio Octava maiora, vol. III, p. 870.

Further reading

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