British_Library,_Add_MS_14479

Syriac Epistles, British Library, Add. 14479

Syriac Epistles, British Library, Add. 14479

New Testament biblical manuscript

British Library, Add MS 14479, is a Syriac manuscript of the New Testament, on parchment. It is dated by a colophon to the year 534. It is one of the oldest manuscripts of Peshitta and the earliest dated Peshitta Apostolos.[1]

Description

It contains the text of the fourteen Pauline epistles,[2] on 101 leaves (8+7⁄8 by 5+1⁄2 in or 230 by 140 mm), with only three lacunae (folio 1, 29, and 38). Written in one column per page, in 25-33 lines per page. The Epistle to 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
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References

  1. [1]
    Bruce M. Metzger, The Early Versions of the New Testament: Their Origin, Transmission and Limitations (Oxford University Press 1977), p. 51.
  2. [2]
    Scrivener, Frederick Henry Ambrose; Edward Miller (1894). A Plain Introduction to the Criticism of the New Testament. Vol. 2 (4th ed.). London: George Bell & Sons. p. 12.
  3. [3]
    William Wright, Catalogue of the Syriac manuscripts in the British Museum (2002), p. 86.
  4. [4]
    Gregory, Caspar René (1902). Textkritik des Neuen Testaments. Vol. 2. Leipzig. p. 520.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)

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