British Library, Add. 14479
British Library, Add. 14479, Syriac manuscript of the New Testament, on parchment. It is dated by a colophon to the year 534. It is one of the oldest manuscript of Peshitta and the earliest dated Peshitta Apostolos.[1]
Description
It contains the text of the fourteen Pauline epistles,[2] on 101 leaves (8 ⅞ by 5 ½ inches), with only three lacunae (folio 1, 29, and 38). Written in one column per page, in 25-33 lines per page. The Hebrews is placed after Philemon.[3][4] Numerous Syriac vowels and signs of punctuations have been added by a Nestorian hand, as well as a few Greek vowels by another reader.[3]
It was written for the monastery in Edessa,[4] in a small, elegant Estrangela hand in the year 533-534.[1] The first folio was supplemented by a later hand in the twelfth century, folio 28 and 39 were supplemented in the thirteenth century.[3]
The manuscript is housed at the British Library (Additional Manuscripts 14479) in London.[1]
See also
- Other manuscripts
- Codex Phillipps 1388
- British Library, Add. 14455
- British Library, Add. 14459
- British Library, Add. 14669
- Sortable articles
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Bruce M. Metzger, The Early Versions of the New Testament: Their Origin, Transmission and Limitations (Oxford University Press 1977), p. 51.
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- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 William Wright, Catalogue of the Syriac manuscripts in the British Museum (2002), p. 86.
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Further reading
- William Wright, Catalogue of the Syriac manuscripts in the British Museum (1870; reprint: Gorgias Press 2002).
External links
- William Wright, Catalogue of the Syriac manuscripts in the British Museum
