Lectionary 315

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| text = Evangelistarium, Apostolarium †

| script = Greek

| date = 16th-century

| found = 1864

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Lectionary 315 (Gregory-Aland), designated by siglum ℓ 315 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering) is a Greek manuscript of the New Testament, on paper. Palaeographically it has been assigned to the 16th century. The manuscript has been lost.

Description

The codex contains Lessons from the Gospels lectionary (Evangelistarium), Acts, Paul and Catholic epistles (Apostolarium).{{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 contains also some additional matter with names of monks and woman.{{Cite book | author = Frederick Henry Ambrose Scrivener | url = https://archive.org/stream/adversariacritic00scri#page/n79/mode/2up | title = Adversaria Critica Sacra: With a Short Explanatory Introduction | location = Cambridge | year = 1893 | pages = LXX–LXIX| publisher = Cambridge, [Eng.] : University Press }}

The lessons of lectionary following the Byzantine Church order (15 lessons are from New Testament, three lessons are from Book of Isaiah).{{r|Gregory}} It is written in Greek minuscule letters, on 316 paper leaves ({{×|15.2|10.1|cm}}), 2 columns per page, 22 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

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| isbn = 978-3-11-011986-2

}}{{Cite web |url=http://intf.uni-muenster.de/vmr/NTVMR/ListeHandschriften.php?ObjID=40315 |title=Liste Handschriften |publisher=Institute for New Testament Textual Research |accessdate=29 September 2013 |location=Münster}}

It uses breathing and accents.{{Cite book | author = Frederick Henry Ambrose Scrivener | url = https://archive.org/stream/adversariacritic00scri#page/n79/mode/2up | title = Adversaria Critica Sacra: With a Short Explanatory Introduction | location = Cambridge | year = 1893 | pages = LXIX| publisher = Cambridge, [Eng.] : University Press }}

History

Scrivener dated the manuscript to the 14th or 15th century.{{Cite book | author = Frederick Henry Ambrose Scrivener | url = https://archive.org/stream/adversariacritic00scri#page/n79/mode/2up | title = Adversaria Critica Sacra: With a Short Explanatory Introduction | location = Cambridge | year = 1893 | pages = LXVIII–LXIX| publisher = Cambridge, [Eng.] : University Press }} Gregory dated it to the 14th century.{{r|Gregory}} It has been assigned by the Institute for New Testament Textual Research (INTF) to the 16th century.{{r|Aland|INTF}}

Of the history of the codex ℓ 315 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 313 and ℓ 314) and they were all transported to England in 1870–1871. The manuscript was lost at the beginning of the 20th century.{{cite journal |last1=Mathiesen |first1=Robert |title=An Important Greek Manuscript Rediscovered and Redated (Codex Burdett-Coutts III.42) |journal=Harvard Theological Review |volume=76 |issue=1 |pages= 131–133 |date=Jan 1983 |jstor=1509440 |doi=10.1017/S0017816000018502 |s2cid=163942322 }}

The manuscript was added to the list of New Testament manuscripts by F. H. A. Scrivener (253^e 67^a) and Caspar René Gregory (number 313^e 184^a).{{r|Gregory}} Scrivener collated its text.{{Cite book | author = Frederick Henry Ambrose Scrivener | url = https://archive.org/stream/adversariacritic00scri#page/n79/mode/2up | title = Adversaria Critica Sacra: With a Short Explanatory Introduction | location = Cambridge | year = 1893 | pages = LXVIII–LXXI, 1–59| publisher = Cambridge, [Eng.] : University Press }} (as w)

It was held in London (Burdett-Coutts III. 42).{{r|Gregory}} The current location and owner of the codex are unknown.{{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= 4th |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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