Lectionary 17
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| number = ℓ 17
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| text = Evangelistarion
| script = Greek
| date = 9th-century
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| now at = Bibliothèque nationale de France
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Lectionary 17, designated by siglum ℓ 17 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering). It is a Greek manuscript of the New Testament, on vellum leaves. Palaeographically it has been assigned to the 9th-century.K. Aland, M. Welte, B. Köster, K. Junack, Kurzgefasste Liste der griechischen Handschriften des Neues Testaments, (Berlin, New York: Walter de Gruyter, 1994), p. 219.
Description
The codex contains Lessons from the Gospels of John, Matthew, Luke lectionary (Evangelistarium), with some lacunae. The text is written in Greek Uncial letters, on 192 parchment leaves ({{×|26|18.6|cm}}), arranged in 19 quires, 2 columns per page, 23 lines per page, 8-12 letters per line.{{Cite book
| last = Gregory
| first = Caspar René
| author-link = Caspar René Gregory
| title = Textkritik des Neuen Testaments
| publisher = J.C. Hinrichs
| year = 1900
| location = Leipzig
| volume = 1
| page = 388
| url = https://archive.org/stream/textkritikdesne00greggoog#page/n401/mode/2up
| last = Scrivener
| first = Frederick Henry Ambrose
| author-link = Frederick Henry Ambrose Scrivener
|author2=Edward Miller
| title = A Plain Introduction to the Criticism of the New Testament
| publisher = George Bell & Sons
| edition = 4th
| year = 1894
| location = London
| volume = 1
| page = 329
}}
History
It was examined by Scholz. Constantin von Tischendorf seems to have confused Lectionary 13 and 17 in his Novum Testamentum, Prolegomena (7th edition, p. CCXVI).
F. H. A. Scrivener dated the manuscript to the 12th-century, C. R. Gregory to the 9th century.
It was added to the list of the New Testament manuscripts by Johann Jakob Wettstein.{{Cite book | last = Aland
| first = Kurt
| author-link = Kurt Aland
| last2 = Aland
| first2 = Barbara
| author-link2 = Barbara Aland
| others = Erroll F. Rhodes (trans.)
| title = The Text of the New Testament: An Introduction to the Critical Editions and to the Theory and Practice of Modern Textual Criticism
| publisher = William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company
| year = 1995
| location = Grand Rapids
| page = [https://archive.org/details/textnewtestament00kurt/page/n94 72]
| url = https://archive.org/details/textnewtestament00kurt
| url-access = limited
| isbn = 978-0-8028-4098-1}} It was examined and described by Scholz and Paulin Martin.Jean-Pierre-Paul Martin, Description technique des manuscrits grecs, relatif au N.T., conservé dans les bibliothè des Paris (Paris 1883), p. 143. Gregory saw it in 1884.
The manuscript is sporadically cited in the critical editions of the Greek New Testament (UBS3).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), p. XXIX.
Currently the codex is located in the Bibliothèque nationale de France (Gr. 279) in Paris.{{r|Aland}}
See also
Notes and references
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Bibliography
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| last = Gregory
| first = Caspar René
| author-link = Caspar René Gregory
| title = Textkritik des Neuen Testaments
| publisher = J. C. Hinrichs
| year = 1900
| location = Leipzig
| volume = 1
| page = 388
| url = https://archive.org/stream/textkritikdesne00greggoog#page/n401/mode/2up
}}
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Category:Greek New Testament lectionaries
Category:9th-century biblical manuscripts
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