Lectionary 1839, designated by ℓ 1839 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), is a Greek minuscule manuscript

Manuscript

A manuscript or handwrite is written information that has been manually created by someone or some people, such as a hand-written letter, as opposed to being printed or reproduced some other way...

 of the New Testament

New Testament

The New Testament is the second major division of the Christian biblical canon, the first such division being the much longer Old Testament....

, written on 256 parchment leaves (30.6 cm by 22.7 cm). Paleographically it had been assigned to the 11th century.

Description

The codex contains Lessons from the Gospels. It is a lectionary

Lectionary

A Lectionary is a book or listing that contains a collection of scripture readings appointed for Christian or Judaic worship on a given day or occasion.-History:...

 (Evangelistarium). Written in two columns per page, in 27 lines per page.

History

The codex was presented by the friends of the Duke University

Duke University

Duke University is a private research university located in Durham, North Carolina, United States. Founded by Methodists and Quakers in the present day town of Trinity in 1838, the school moved to Durham in 1892. In 1924, tobacco industrialist James B...

 Library in honor of Kenneth Willis Clark. Currently it is housed at the Kenneth Willis Clark Collection

Kenneth Willis Clark Collection

The Kenneth Willis Clark Collection of Greek Manuscripts in Duke University Library contains ninety-eight manuscripts — in both roll and codex form — dating from the 9th to the 17th century....

 of the Duke University

Duke University

Duke University is a private research university located in Durham, North Carolina, United States. Founded by Methodists and Quakers in the present day town of Trinity in 1838, the school moved to Durham in 1892. In 1924, tobacco industrialist James B...

 (Gk MS 65) at Durham

Durham, North Carolina

Durham is a city in the U.S. state of North Carolina. It is the county seat of Durham County and also extends into Wake County. It is the fifth-largest city in the state, and the 85th-largest in the United States by population, with 228,330 residents as of the 2010 United States census...

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See also

• List of New Testament lectionaries
• Biblical manuscript
  Biblical manuscript
  A biblical manuscript is any handwritten copy of a portion of the text of the Bible. The word Bible comes from the Greek biblia ; manuscript comes from Latin manu and scriptum...
  
  
• Textual criticism
  Textual criticism
  Textual criticism is a branch of literary criticism that is concerned with the identification and removal of transcription errors in the texts of manuscripts...
  
  

External links

• Lectionary 1839 at the Kenneth Willis Clark Collection of Greek Manuscripts