Codex Marshall Or. 5 Explained

Codex Marshall Or. 5, is a Bohairic-Greek, uncial manuscript of the New Testament, on a paper. Palaeographically it has been assigned to the 14th century.^[1]

Description

It contains the text of the four Gospels on 265 paper leaves (24.7 by 17.5). The text is written in 1 column per page, 27 lines per page.^[1] The titles and initials are illuminated. It contains the Ammonian Sections, the Eusebian Canons, numerals of the Greek, Ancient (to 1453);: κεφαλαια (Coptic and Greek) at the margin, and pictures.^[1]

The manuscript contains the additions in Luke 22:43.44 (the agony); 23:17.34; John 5:3.4 (the descent of the angel); Pericope Adulterae (7:53-8:11), but omits Matthew 18:11.^{[2] [3]}

In the catalogue the date of a donation is given as Mart 1498 A.D. The manuscript was examined by Lightfoot and Headlam.^[1] Horner used it in his edition of the Bohairic New Testament.^[4]

Currently it is housed at the Bodleian Library (Marshall Or. 5) in Oxford.

See also

• Coptic versions of the Bible
• Biblical manuscript
• Huntington MS 17
• Huntington MS 20
• Codex Marshall Or. 6

Notes and References

1. Book: Gregory , Caspar René . Caspar René Gregory . Textkritik des Neuen Testaments . 1902 . Leipzig . 2 . 538 .
2. Book: Scrivener , Frederick Henry Ambrose . Frederick Henry Ambrose Scrivener . Edward Miller . . . 1894 . London . 2 . 112 .
3. [Constantin von Tischendorf]
4. George Horner, The Coptic Version of the New Testament in the Northern Dialect, otherwise called Memphitic and Bohairic, 4 vols. (1898-1905; repr. Osnabrück: 1969).