Syriac Epistles, British Library, Add. 14479 Explained

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, 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]

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Notes and References

  1. [Bruce M. Metzger]
  2. Book: Scrivener , Frederick Henry Ambrose . Frederick Henry Ambrose Scrivener . Edward Miller . . . 1894 . London . 4th . 2 . 12 .
  3. William Wright, Catalogue of the Syriac manuscripts in the British Museum (2002), p. 86.
  4. Book: Gregory , Caspar René . Caspar René Gregory . Textkritik des Neuen Testaments . 1902 . Leipzig . 2 . 520 .