Oriental MS 425

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Oriental MS 425, is a bilinguical Bohairic-Arabic, uncial manuscript of the New Testament, on paper, now in the British Library in London. It is dated by a colophon to the year 1308. The manuscript is lacunose.

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Description

It contains the text of the four Gospels on 164 paper leaves (25.4 by 18.5 cm) with a large lacunae (Luke, John 1:1-19:6; 20:13-21:13). The text is written in two columns per page, 33 lines per page. [1] It contains the Eusebian tables, tables of the κεφαλαια, numerals of the κεφαλαια are given in Coptic and Greek, the Ammonian Sections, a references to the Eusebian Canons, and pictures. [2]

It lacks text of Matthew 18:11. [2]

History

The manuscript was written by Joannes, a scribe. [3]

The manuscript was purchased by Archdeacon Henry Tattam's sale. [2] The manuscript was examined by Lightfoot and Arthur Headlam. [1]

Horner saw the manuscript in 1892. He used it in his edition of the Bohairic New Testament as a basis for the text of the Gospels. [4]

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Oriental MS 424

Codex Oriental Ms. 424, designated by siglum A1 (Horner), t (de Lagarde [= Boetticher]), is written in two languages Bohairic-Arabic, uncial manuscript of the New Testament, on paper. It is dated by a colophon to the year 1308. Many leaves of the codex were lost.

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References

  1. 1 2 Gregory, Caspar René (1902). Textkritik des Neuen Testaments. 2. Leipzig. p. 538.
  2. 1 2 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. 112.
  3. Constantin von Tischendorf, Editio Octava maiora, vol. III, p. 870.
  4. George Horner, The Coptic Version of the New Testament in the Northern Dialect, otherwise called Memphitic and Bohairic, 4 vols. (1898-1905; repr. Osnabrück: 1969).

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