Oriental MS 1316

Oriental MS 1001, Bohairic-Arabic, uncial manuscript of the New Testament, on paper. It is dated to the year 1663. Horner designated the manuscript by siglum H3.[1]

Description

It contains a complete text of the four Gospels on 253 paper leaves (30 by 21 cm), in octavo. The text is written in two columns per page, 36 lines per page.[1]

It contains the Eusebian tables, Prolegomena, tables of the κεφαλαια before each Gospel, and pictures;[2] it is illuminated.[3] the Ammonian sections and a references to the Eusebian Canons in red.[1]

The nomina sacra are written in an abbreviated way.[4]

History

It is dated by a colophon to the year 1663.[1]

In 1721 it was presented to the Church of Our Lady and Saint George in Harat ar-Rum.[2] Lightfoot, Arthur Headlam examined the manuscript.[5]

Currently it is housed at the British Library (Oriental 1316) in London.

See also

References
  1. George Horner, The Coptic Version of the New Testament in the Northern Dialect, otherwise called Memphitic and Bohairic, 1 vol. (1898), p. CI
  2. Gregory, Caspar René (1902). Textkritik des Neuen Testaments. 2. Leipzig. p. 539.
  3. Scrivener, Frederick Henry Ambrose; Edward Miller (1894). A Plain Introduction to the Criticism of the New Testament, Vol. 2. London: George Bell & Sons. p. 113.
  4. George Horner, The Coptic Version of the New Testament in the Northern Dialect, otherwise called Memphitic and Bohairic, 1 vol. (1898), p. CII
  5. Constantin von Tischendorf, Novum Testamentum Graece Editio Octava Critica Maior, vol. III, p. 871

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