Codex Zacynthius - Palimpsest

Palimpsest

The codex is a palimpsest, meaning that the original text was scraped off and overwritten and the parchment leaves folded in half. The upper text was written by a minuscule hand and contains lectionary 299 ( 299) from the 12th or 13th century, though the lectionary text is not complete; it is written on 176 leaves (28.7 cm by 18.2 cm), in one column per page, 33-36 lines per page. Three folios are only the lower halves of leaves, one folio was supplied with paper (folio LXVIII). The manuscript contains weekday Gospel lessons (Evangelistarium), but is lacunose. Tregelles did not collate its text because of its secondary value. Scrivener designated it by siglum 200, Gregory by 299.

Lectionary 299 in Mark 6:33 has textual reading ἐκεῖ καὶ προῆλθον αὐτούς along with Codex Sinaiticus, Codex Vaticanus, 0187 (omit εκει), 892, 49, 69, 70, 303, 333, 1579, ( 950 αυτους), itaur, vg, (copsa, bo).

The text of the lectionary is cited in some critical editions of the Greek New Testament (UBS3) in the following places: Matthew 10:4; 11:17; 12:47; 13:13; 14:22; 18:10; 22:30; 26:27; 28:9; Mark 1:27; 2:10.26; 4:16.20; 6:2.2.3.33. It is not cited in UBS4.

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