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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 H<sub>3</sub>.

Description

It contains a complete text of the four Gospels on 253 paper leaves (30 by 21&nbsp;cm), in octavo. The text is written in two columns per page, 36 lines per page.

It contains the Eusebian tables, Prolegomena, tables of the before each Gospel, and pictures; it is illuminated. the Ammonian sections and a references to the Eusebian Canons in red.

The nomina sacra are written in an abbreviated way.

History

It is dated by a colophon to the year 1663.

In 1721 it was presented to the Church of Our Lady and Saint George in Harat ar-Rum. Lightfoot, Arthur Headlam examined the manuscript.

Currently it is housed at the British Library (Oriental MS 1316) in London.

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