Huntington MS 20 explained

Huntington 20 is a Bohairic-Greek, uncial manuscript of the New Testament, on paper. Palaeographically it has been assigned to the 13th century.^[1]

Description

It contains the text of the four Gospels on 333 paper leaves (24.2 by 17.3). The text is written in 1 column per page, 24 lines per page.^[1] It contains numerals of the Greek, Ancient (to 1453);: κεφαλαια at the margin (in Coptic and Greek), the Ammonian Sections, the Eusebian Canons, and illuminations. The manuscript omits the additions in Matthew 17:11; Luke 22:43.44 (the agony); John 5:3.4 (the descent of the angel); Pericope Adultera (7:53-8:11), but contains those of Matthew 23:13 (after verse 14); Luke 23:17.34.^{[2] [3]}

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 (Huntington 20) in Oxford.

See also

• Coptic versions of the Bible
• Biblical manuscript
• Huntington MS 17
• British Library, Add MS 5995
• Oriental MS 425

Further reading

• A. C. Headlam, Novum Testamentum

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).