Additional MS 14470
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Additional MS 14470, Bohairic, uncial 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....

, with a few Armenian fragments. The manuscript is written on vellum and paper. Palaeographically
Palaeography
Palaeography, also spelt paleography is the study of ancient writing. Included in the discipline is the practice of deciphering, reading, and dating historical manuscripts, and the cultural context of writing, including the methods with which writing and books were produced, and the history of...

 it has been assigned to the 13th century. The manuscript has survived in a fragmentary condition.

Description

The following fragments of the Bohairic New Testament on vellum are important on account of their antiquity:
Luke 8:2-7.8-10.13-18
2 Corinthians 4:2-5:4
Ephesians 2:10-19; 2:21-3:11
1 Thessalonians 3:3-6; 3:11-4:1

The fragment from the Ephesians is the most ancient from them. The manuscript contains also several paper fragments of the Bohairic New Testament, belonged chiefly to lectionaries.

History

Lightfoot
Joseph Barber Lightfoot
Joseph Barber Lightfoot was an English theologian and Bishop of Durham, usually known as J.B. Lightfoot....

 examined the manuscript.

Currently it is housed at the British Library
British Library
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 (Oriental 1001) in London
London
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.

See also

  • List of the Coptic New Testament manuscripts
  • Coptic versions of the Bible
    Coptic versions of the Bible
    There have been many Coptic versions of the Bible, including some of the earliest translations into any language. Several different versions were made in the ancient world, with different editions of the Old and New Testament in all four of the major dialects of Coptic: Bohairic , Fayyumic, Sahidic...

  • 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...

  • Oriental MS 1316
    Oriental MS 1316
    Oriental MS 1001, Bohairic-Arabic, uncial manuscript of the New Testament, on paper. It is dated to the year 1663. Horner designated the manuscript by siglum H3.- Description :...

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