Lectionary 1602
Encyclopedia
Lectionary 1602, designated by ℓ 1602 in the Gregory-Aland numbering,
is a Coptic
Coptic language
Coptic or Coptic Egyptian is the current stage of the Egyptian language, a northern Afro-Asiatic language spoken in Egypt until at least the 17th century. Egyptian began to be written using the Greek alphabet in the 1st century...

Greek
Greek language
Greek is an independent branch of the Indo-European family of languages. Native to the southern Balkans, it has the longest documented history of any Indo-European language, spanning 34 centuries of written records. Its writing system has been the Greek alphabet for the majority of its history;...

 bilingual manuscript
Manuscript
A manuscript or handwrite is written information that has been manually created by someone or some people, such as a hand-written letter, as opposed to being printed or reproduced some other way...

 of the New Testament
New Testament
The New Testament is the second major division of the Christian biblical canon, the first such division being the much longer Old Testament....

, on parchment leaves, dated paleographically to the 8th century.

Description

The text is written in Greek Uncial
Uncial
Uncial is a majuscule script commonly used from the 3rd to 8th centuries AD by Latin and Greek scribes. Uncial letters are written in either Greek, Latin, or Gothic.-Development:...

 letters, on 88 parchment leaves (36.2 by 28.4 cm), in 2 columns per page, and 28 lines per page.

The codex contains Lessons from the four Gospels lectionary
Lectionary
A Lectionary is a book or listing that contains a collection of scripture readings appointed for Christian or Judaic worship on a given day or occasion.-History:...

 (Evangelistarium).

It has two endings to the Gospel of Mark (as in codices Codex Regius
Codex Regius (New Testament)
Codex Regius designated by siglum Le or 019 , ε 56 , is a Greek uncial manuscript of the New Testament, dated paleographically to the 8th century. The manuscript is lacunose. It has marginalia....

 Ψ 099
Uncial 099
Uncial 099 , ε 47 ; is a Greek uncial manuscript of the New Testament, assigned paleographically to the 7th century.- Description :...

 0112 274mg
Minuscule 274
Minuscule 274 , ε 1024 , is a Greek minuscule manuscript of the New Testament, on parchment. Paleographically it has been assigned to the 10th century.It has marginalia.- Description :...

 579
Minuscule 579
Minuscule 579 , ε 376 , is a Greek minuscule manuscript of the New Testament, on parchment leaves. Palaeographically it has been assigned to the 13th century. Formerly it was labelled as 80e...

).

The manuscript was digitalized by the CSNTM
Center for the Study of New Testament Manuscripts
The Center for the Study of New Testament Manuscripts is a non-profit organization set out to preserve ancient manuscripts of the Christian Scriptures New Testament. This aim is accomplished by taking high resolution digital photographs of all extant Greek New Testament manuscripts. The...

 in 2008.

The codex is now located in the University of Michigan
University of Michigan
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 (P. Mich. Inv., Nr. 4942, 1 fol.) in Ann Arbor
Ann Arbor, Michigan
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.

See also

  • List of New Testament lectionaries
  • Coptic versions of the Bible
    Coptic versions of the Bible
    There have been many Coptic versions of the Bible, including some of the earliest translations into any language. Several different versions were made in the ancient world, with different editions of the Old and New Testament in all four of the major dialects of Coptic: Bohairic , Fayyumic, Sahidic...

  • Textual criticism
    Textual criticism
    Textual criticism is a branch of literary criticism that is concerned with the identification and removal of transcription errors in the texts of manuscripts...


External links

  • Lectionary 1602 at the CSNTM
    Center for the Study of New Testament Manuscripts
    The Center for the Study of New Testament Manuscripts is a non-profit organization set out to preserve ancient manuscripts of the Christian Scriptures New Testament. This aim is accomplished by taking high resolution digital photographs of all extant Greek New Testament manuscripts. The...

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