Cambridge, University Library, MS Add. 1879.12
Diktyon no.: Diktyon 77962
Contents
Language(s): Greek
Gregory-Aland l 310; Scrivener Eust. 296
The fragment begins during the (synaxarion) lection for the Saturday of Lazarus (Jn 11:41) and ends during that for Monday of Holy Week (Mt 24:26), with a lacuna between f. 2v and f. 3r
Physical Description
Collation
The fragment consists of 2 bifolios, probably second and third of a quaternion.
- Quire 18-4 ff. 1-4 The first, fourth, fifth and eighth folios have probably been lost, with loss of text
Condition
Layout
Two columns of 25 lines each. 184 × 120 mm. Pricking survives in the lower margin of f. 2, but has otherwise been lost to cropping or damage. Ruled in hardpoint, system Leroy 12, type Leroy 00C2.
Hand(s)
The main text was copied by Hand A in a mixed minuscule script, slanting slightly to the right, in brown ink. There is modest variation in letter size.
Syllabic abbreviations and superscript word endings appear only at the end of lines. Abbreviations take an angular form (ff. f. 2r, col. b, line 12, 3r, col. b, line 8). Breathings are both angular and round, and mute iota is adscript. Use of the double dot is functional only. There is accentuation of all lengths of nomina sacra . The word υἱός is not contracted, while κύριος is also uncontracted in a non-religious context. Marginal quotation marks are in use, and the hyphen is used to link words across line-turns.
Punctuation used includes the lower, middle and upper points and middle comma.
Lection headings were copied by Hand B in mixed minuscule script with many majuscule letters, in red ink. Breathings are both angular and round.
Decoration
Lections begin with minor initials in red ink, sometimes slightly ornamented.
Additions
Binding
The fragment has a modern card binding reinforced with cloth inside the spine.
History
Provenance and Acquisition
Owned by the Biblical scholar Constantin von Tischendorf (1815-1874) .
Bought by the University Library from Tischendorf's executors in 1876.
Additional Information
Availability
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Bibliography
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Novum Testamentum Graece: ad antiquissimos testes denuo recensuit
apparatum criticum apposuit Constantinus Tischendorf, Gregory, Caspar René (Leipzig, 3: Prolegomena, J.C. Hinrichs, 1894)
Textkritik des Neuen Testamentes, Gregory, Caspar René (Leipzig, J. C. Hinrichs, 1900)
Hand-list of the additional Greek manuscripts in the University
Library, Cambridge Scriptorium, Easterling, Patricia E. (16, 2, 302-323, 1962)
Plain Introduction to the Criticism of the New Testament, Scrivener, Frederick Henry
Ambrose (1, Project Gutenberg, 2011)
Funding of Cataloguing
The Polonsky Foundation
Digital Images
Abbreviations
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