Lectionary 313

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| number = ℓ 313

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| text = Evangelistarium †

| script = Greek

| date = 14th-century

| found = 1864

| now at = University of Michigan Library

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| size = {{×|34.5|28|cm}}

| type = Byzantine text-type

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Lectionary 313 (Gregory-Aland), designated by siglum ℓ 313 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering) is a Greek manuscript of the New Testament, on parchment. Palaeographically it has been assigned to the 14th-century. The manuscript has survived in a fragmentary condition.

Description

The codex contains Lessons for selected days only from the Gospels of John, Matthew, Luke lectionary (Evangelistarium) with some lacunae.{{Cite book

| last = Gregory

| first = Caspar René

| authorlink = Caspar René Gregory

| title = Textkritik des Neuen Testaments

| publisher = J.C. Hinrichs’sche Buchhandlung

| year = 1900

| location = Leipzig

| volume = 1

| page = 414

| url = https://archive.org/stream/textkritikdesne00greggoog#page/n427/mode/2up

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It is written in Greek minuscule letters, on 209 parchment leaves ({{×|34.5|28|cm}}), 2 columns per page, 21 lines per page.{{Cite book

| last = Aland

| first = Kurt

| authorlink = Kurt Aland

|author2=M. Welte |author3=B. Köster |author4=K. Junack

| title = Kurzgefasste Liste der griechischen Handschriften des Neues Testaments

| publisher = Walter de Gruyter

| year = 1994

| location = Berlin, New York

| page = 238

| url =

| isbn = 3-11-011986-2

}}{{Cite web |url=http://intf.uni-muenster.de/vmr/NTVMR/ListeHandschriften.php?ObjID=40313 |title=Liste Handschriften |publisher=Institute for New Testament Textual Research |accessdate=29 September 2013 |location=Münster}} According to the CSNTM description the manuscript has 212 leaves. There are no interesting or significant images.[http://www.csntm.org/Manuscript/View/GA_Lect_313 Images of lectionary 313] at the CSNTM

The codex contains the weekday Gospel Lessons (Evangelistarium) according to the Byzantine Church order.{{r|Aland|INTF}}

History

Gregory dated the manuscript to the 14th-century.{{r|Gregory}} It has been assigned by the Institute for New Testament Textual Research (INTF) to the 14th-century.{{r|Aland|INTF}}

Of the history of the codex ℓ 313 nothing is known until 1864, when it was in the possession of a dealer at Janina in Epeiros. It was then purchased from him by a representative of Baroness Burdett-Coutts (1814–1906), a philanthropist,{{cite book |last=Parker |first=Franklin |title=George Peabody, a biography |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=OPIbk-ZPnF4C |publisher=Vanderbilt University Press |year=1995|pages=107|isbn=9780826512567 }} together with other Greek manuscripts (among them lectionaries ℓ 314 and ℓ 315) which were transported to England in 1870–1871.Robert Mathiesen, [https://www.jstor.org/pss/1509440 An Important Greek Manuscript Rediscovered and Redated (Codex Burdett-Coutts III.42)], The Harvard Theological Review, Vol. 76, No. 1 (Jan., 1983), pp. 131–133.

The manuscript was added to the list of New Testament manuscripts by F. H. A. Scrivener (494) Caspar René Gregory (number 313^e).{{r|Gregory}}

It used to be held in London (Burdett-Coutts II. 5).{{r|Gregory}} The codex is now housed in the University of Michigan Library (Ms. 33) in Ann Arbor.{{r|Aland|INTF}}

The manuscript is not cited in critical editions of the Greek New Testament (UBS4,{{Cite book | last1 = Aland | first1=B. |last2=Aland |first2=K. |last3=J. Karavidopoulos, C. M. Martini, B. Metzger, A. Wikgren |title = The Greek New Testament |edition=4 |publisher=United Bible Societies |location=Stuttgart |year=1993 |page=21* |isbn=978-3-438-05110-3}} NA28{{Cite book | last =Nestle | first=Eberhard et Erwin |others = communiter ediderunt: B. et K. Aland, J. Karavidopoulos, C. M. Martini, B. M. Metzger | title=Novum Testamentum Graece |edition=27 |publisher= Deutsche Bibelgesellschaft |location=Stuttgart |year=2001 |page=814 |isbn=978-3-438-05100-4}}).

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