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Lectionary 287

Lectionary 287, designated by siglum ℓ 287 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering) is a Greek manuscript of the New Testament, on parchment. Palaeographically it has been assigned to the 13th century.^[1][2] Frederick Henry Ambrose Scrivener labelled it as 166^e.^[3]

Description[edit]

The codex contains lessons from the Gospel of John, Matthew, and Luke (Evangelistarium), on 201 parchment leaves (29 cm by 21 cm), with some lacunae.^[4]

The text is written in Greek minuscule letters, in two columns per page, 29 lines per page.^[1][4] The manuscript contains weekday Gospel lessons.^[1]

It contains the text of the Pericope Adulterae (John 8:3-11).^[4]

History[edit]

Scrivener and Gregory dated the manuscript to the 13th century.^[3][4] It has been assigned by the Institute for New Testament Textual Research to the 13th century.^[1][2]

The manuscript was added to the list of New Testament manuscripts by Scrivener (number 166^e) and Gregory (number 287^e). Gregory saw the manuscript in 1886.^[4]

The manuscript is not cited in the critical editions of the Greek New Testament (UBS3).^[5]

The codex is housed at the Biblioteca Ambrosiana (D. 108 sup., fol. 3–203) in Milan. The leaves 1–2,204 of the same codex are classified as lectionary 2352 (Gregory-Aland).^[1][2]

See also[edit]

• List of New Testament lectionaries
• Biblical manuscript
• Textual criticism
• Lectionary 286

Notes and references[edit]

Bibliography[edit]

• Gregory, Caspar René (1900). Textkritik des Neuen Testaments, Vol. 1. Leipzig: J.C. Hinrichs’sche Buchhandlung. p. 411.