Editing British Library, Add. 12140

'''British Library, Add. 12140''', [[Syriac language|Syriac]] [[manuscript]] of the [[New Testament]], on a parchment. [[Palaeography|Palaeographically]] it had been assigned to the 6th century. It is a manuscript of [[Peshitta]]. The manuscript is a lacunose.<sup>[1]</sup>

== Description ==

It contains the text of the four [[Gospel]]s, on 196 parchment leaves (10 ⅞ by 8 ¾ inches), with some [[Lacuna (manuscript)|lacunae]] ([[Matthew 26:7]]-[[Matthew 26:28|28]]; [[Mark 10:45]]-[[Mark 11:1|11:1]]). Folio 3 b was supplemented by a later scribe, but scribe wrote more than was necessary to connect with folio 4, in result Matthew 2:4-6 is repeated.<sup>[1]</sup>

Written in two columns per page, in 23-26 lines per page. The writing is a fine bold [[Estrangela]]. Folio 2, 3, and 5 written in inelegant, angular hand from about the 11th century. Folio 133 is a paper leaf of still later date, with writing on one side only. The manuscript has many notes added by a later hand. On folio 1 b, 2 a, and 133 b it has some Arabic notes.<sup>[1]</sup>

The manuscript is housed at the [[British Library]] (Additional Manuscripts 12140) in London.<ref name = Wright/>

== See also ==

* [[List of the Syriac New Testament manuscripts]]
* [[Syriac versions of the Bible]]
* [[Biblical manuscript]]
* [[Codex Phillipps 1388]]
* [[British Library, Add. 14479]]

== References ==

* 1. William Wright, Catalogue of the Syriac manuscripts in the British Museum (2002), p. 49.

== Further reading ==

* [[William Aldis Wright|William Wright]], ''Catalogue of the Syriac manuscripts in the British Museum'' (1870; reprint: Gorgias Press 2002).

== External links ==

* [http://books.google.pl/books?id=WuqhgQxERk4C&pg=PA49&lpg=#v=onepage&q=&f=false William Wright, ''Catalogue of the Syriac manuscripts in the British Museum'']

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