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Lincoln College MS. Gr. 38

Diktyon no.: 48692

Gospel book; late 13th c.

Contents

Language(s): Greek

Gospel Book
1. (fols. 1r–64v)

Gospel of Matthew: the beginning is lost, so that the text now starts with Mt 2:20.

2. (fol. 64v)

Chapters list of the Gospel of Mark (end lost).

3. (fols. 65r–103r)

Gospel of Mark: the beginning is lost, so that the text now starts with Mk 1:31.

4. (fols. 103r–104v)

Chapters list for the Gospel of Luke. Fol. 105r is blank.

5. (fols. 105v–166r)

Gospel of Luke.

6. (fol. 166r)

Colophon to the Gospel of Luke

Colophon: Τὸ κατὰ Λουκᾶν ἅγιον εὐαγγέλιον ἐγράφη ἐν τῇ Ῥώμῃ κατ’ ἐπιτροπὴν τοῦ ἁγίου ἀποστόλου Παύλου εἰς ὁμοίωμα μοσχαρίου.
7. (fols. 166r–168r)

Chapters list for the Gospel of Luke. Fol. 168v is blank.

8. (fols. 169r–219v)

Gospel of John: the end is lost, so that the text now breaks off at Jn 21:18.

9. (fols. 220r–222v)

List of Gospel readings for the movable feast cycle, starting from Easter Sunday.

10. (fols. 222v–224v)

List of Gospel readings for the fixed feast cycle, 1 September through 29 August (the end is probably lost).

(fols. 225r-v, 225v–226r)

Text on the added leaves: (225r-v) list of Gospel readings for the feast days of various categories of saints (archangels, prophets, etc.) and for various occasions (consecration of a church, earthquake, etc.), (225v–226r) note on the distribution of Gospel readings: Τὸ δὲ κατὰ Ματθαῖον ἅγιον εὐαγγέλιον ἀναγινώσκεται ἀπὸ τῆς μετὰ τῆς Πεντηκοστῆς δευτέρας ἤγουν τοῦ Ἁγίου Πνεύματος etc.: H. von Soden, Die Schriften des Neuen Testaments in ihrer ältesten erreichbaren Textgestalt I.2 (Berlin 1906) 759.

The lower text on the palimpsest ff. 225–226 is partly legible under ultra-violet light. Still, I cannot identify it.

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: Parchment
Extent: 226 leaves
Dimensions (leaf): 165 × 110 mm.
Fols. 225-6: Palimpsest parchment, 155 × 100 mm

Collation

Collation: text loss, ii (ff. 1–2), text loss, 3 × viii (ff. 3–26), viii (ff. 27–34, ff. 28 and 33 single), 3 × viii (ff. 35–58), vi (ff. 59–64), text loss, iv (ff. 65–68), text loss, i (f.69), 4 × viii (ff. 70–101), vi (ff. 102–107), 6 × viii (ff. 108–155), viii (ff. 156–163, ff. 157 and 162 single), 5 × viii (ff. 164–203), viii (ff. 204–211, ff. 206 and 209 single), viii (ff. 210–219), text loss, i (f. 220), iv (ff. 221–224), ii (ff. 225–226). The scribe signed his quires in the upper outer corner at their beginning, starting with γ´ on f. 11r.

Layout

Fols. 1-224: 22 lines [ 116 × 75 mm. ], and 23 lines, [ 122 × 75 mm. ], ruling Leroy 20D1

Fols. 225-6: 17–18 lines [ca. 105 × 75 mm. ], no ruling.

Hand(s)

Produced by a single anonymous scribe who wrote Δόξα σοι Κ(ύρι)ε at the end of Luke’s Gospel on f. 166r. – Ff. 225–226 were added to the manuscript in the fourteenth century by an anonymous scribe B.

Decoration

There are painted headbands on ff. 105v and 169r. Scribe B drew in black and red ink an interlace headband on f. 225v.

Additions:

Note in black ink in the outer margin of f. 69v: 1607 ναοπην τὸν χατζη […] εγω χαζη Γερογης ο|μολογο του […] χαζη Λετερην γογορ.

Binding

Binding (perhaps sixteenth- or seventeenth-century) of blind-tooled brown leather over wooded boards. The leather has been re-backed. The spine has been repaired and the endbands, originally raised, are now trimmed down. Traces remains of two pins and two leather thongs. There are no pastedowns and no endpapers.

History

Origin: 13th century, late

Provenance and Acquisition

It is not clear when exactly Lincoln College acquired this manuscript. In 1893, it was still in private hands (see Bates et al. below).

Record Sources

Description by Georgi Parpulov (2023).

Bibliography

Abbreviations

View list of abbreviations and editorial conventions.

Last Substantive Revision

2023-12: New description by Georgi Parpulov.