Gospel, Acts and Epistles lectionary (Cambridge, University Library, MS Add. 2754.2)
This fragment is part of a folio that was probably copied in the second half of the 12th century or first half of the 13th. It appears to come from a New Testament lectionary, quite a rare type of manuscript combining the lections to be read from the Gospels and from the Acts and Epistles into a single alternating sequence, whereas these texts were usually read from two separate books. The lections are accompanied, as part of the manuscript's original content, by information on the hymns to be used, another unusual feature. The format is also unusually small for a lectionary.
Dr Christopher Wright
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- Physical Location: Cambridge University Library
- Classmark: Cambridge, University Library, MS Add. 2754.2
- Alternative Identifier(s): Diktyon 77479
- Subject(s): Bible
- Date of Creation: second half of the 12th or first half of the 13th century
- Note(s): The text of this fragment begins during the entry for 5 January (at 1 Cor 10:4) and ends during that for 6 January; The lection for 6 January, Mk 1:9-11, is correctly identified by a modern note, but is erroneously identified in the original text as belonging to the Gospel of Luke
- Extent: Fragment (scrap) 1 Fragment height: 135 mm, width: 122 mm.
- Material: Eastern paper
- Format: Codex
- Condition: There is creasing and areas of dirt.
- Script:
The text was copied in an upright mixed minuscule script, in black ink, with little variation in letter size.
Breathings are round and mute iota is absent. There is accentuation of all lengths of nomina sacra.
There are bars on the central stroke of epsilon and theta.
Punctuation used includes the middle point and full stop.
Headings were written in the same style in red ink.
- Layout: A single column of at least 9 lines. Written width: 83 mm.
- Decoration: The beginnings of sections are marked by minor initials in red ink.
- Origin: The style of script and use of paper suggests that the manuscript from which the fragment comes was probably copied in the second half of the 12th or first half of the 13th century.
- Funding: The Polonsky Foundation
- Author(s) of the Record: Christopher Wright
- Bibliography:
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- Physical Location: Cambridge University Library
- Classmark: Cambridge, University Library, MS Add. 2754.2
- Alternative Identifier(s): Diktyon 77479
- Subject(s): Bible
- Date of Creation: second half of the 12th or first half of the 13th century
- Note(s): The text of this fragment begins during the entry for 5 January (at 1 Cor 10:4) and ends during that for 6 January; The lection for 6 January, Mk 1:9-11, is correctly identified by a modern note, but is erroneously identified in the original text as belonging to the Gospel of Luke
- Extent: Fragment (scrap) 1 Fragment height: 135 mm, width: 122 mm.
- Material: Eastern paper
- Format: Codex
- Condition: There is creasing and areas of dirt.
- Script:
The text was copied in an upright mixed minuscule script, in black ink, with little variation in letter size.
Breathings are round and mute iota is absent. There is accentuation of all lengths of nomina sacra.
There are bars on the central stroke of epsilon and theta.
Punctuation used includes the middle point and full stop.
Headings were written in the same style in red ink.
- Layout: A single column of at least 9 lines. Written width: 83 mm.
- Decoration: The beginnings of sections are marked by minor initials in red ink.
- Origin: The style of script and use of paper suggests that the manuscript from which the fragment comes was probably copied in the second half of the 12th or first half of the 13th century.
- Funding: The Polonsky Foundation
- Author(s) of the Record: Christopher Wright
- Bibliography:
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