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Fragments A and B (ff. 172<\/a> and 173<\/a>) were removed from their original manuscripts when they were in the possession of the scholar and book collector Johann Christoph Wolf (1683-1739) and sent by him to Richard Bentley (1662-1742), Master of Trinity. They became part of the collection of papers relating to his proposed edition of the Greek New Testament which is now MS B.17.20<\/a>.<\/p>"
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"value": "The Polonsky Foundation"
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"label": "Abstract",
"value": " This item includes three Gospel fragments<\/i> from different manuscripts. Two of these belong to Gospel books in majuscule script, one of which is now London, British Library, Harley MS 5684<\/a>, dating to the 9th or 10th century; the other is Hamburg, Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek, MS In Scrin. 91, of the 10th century. During the 9th century, Greek book production largely shifted from the use of majuscule script to the more compact minuscule, but many religious texts, particularly those for liturgical use, long continued to be copied in the more traditional mode. Both manuscripts were provided with notes identifying the lections to be read from them through the liturgical calendar, and the Hamburg manuscript was also provided with ekphonetic musical notation to guide the chanting of the text. The Hamburg manuscript, to which Fragment B (f. 173r-173v<\/a>) belongs, is particularly important for its variant readings and has been used in many editions.<\/p> In the 18th century these two books were mutilated while both were in the possession of the German collector Johann Christoph Wolf, who sent them to the English scholar Richard Bentley. Bentley intended to produce a new edition of the Greek text of the New Testament, a project which never came to fruition. These two Gospel fragments came to be inserted into a collection of papers relating to this project, MS B.17.20<\/a>, and foliated as part of its sequence, as ff. 172-173<\/a>. They have since been rehoused separately, but continue to be kept with it under the same classmark.<\/p> A third fragment, a bifolio of a Gospel lectionary probably dating to the 11th century, remains bound as part of MS B.17.20, foliated as ff. 170-171<\/a>. Both folios of this sheet are folded over, perhaps reflecting past reuse as a wrapper.<\/p> Dr Christopher Wright<\/p>"
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"label": "Former Owner(s)",
"value": "Wolf, Johann Christoph, 1683-1739; Bentley, Richard, 1662-1742"
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"label": "Title",
"value": "Gospel fragments"
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"label": "Author(s) of the Record",
"value": "Christopher Wright"
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"value": "Cambridge, Trinity College, MS B.17.20"
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"label": "Acquisition",
"value": "Bequeathed to Trinity College by Bentley."
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"label": "Subject(s)",
"value": "Bible"
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"value": "Greek"
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"value": "Diktyon 11950"
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"value": "Fragments A and B (ff. 172-173<\/a>) are accompanied by printed notes regarding their content and association with their original manuscripts and the one to which they now belong. A loose handwritten note on the provenance of Fragment B (f. 173<\/a>) is also inserted between ff. 170 and 171<\/a>. See the full manuscript<\/a> digitised on the Wren Digital Library."
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"value": " This item includes three Gospel fragments<\/i> from different manuscripts. Two of these belong to Gospel books in majuscule script, one of which is now London, British Library, Harley MS 5684<\/a>, dating to the 9th or 10th century; the other is Hamburg, Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek, MS In Scrin. 91, of the 10th century. During the 9th century, Greek book production largely shifted from the use of majuscule script to the more compact minuscule, but many religious texts, particularly those for liturgical use, long continued to be copied in the more traditional mode. Both manuscripts were provided with notes identifying the lections to be read from them through the liturgical calendar, and the Hamburg manuscript was also provided with ekphonetic musical notation to guide the chanting of the text. The Hamburg manuscript, to which Fragment B (f. 173r-173v<\/a>) belongs, is particularly important for its variant readings and has been used in many editions.<\/p> In the 18th century these two books were mutilated while both were in the possession of the German collector Johann Christoph Wolf, who sent them to the English scholar Richard Bentley. Bentley intended to produce a new edition of the Greek text of the New Testament, a project which never came to fruition. These two Gospel fragments came to be inserted into a collection of papers relating to this project, MS B.17.20<\/a>, and foliated as part of its sequence, as ff. 172-173<\/a>. They have since been rehoused separately, but continue to be kept with it under the same classmark.<\/p>
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