Editing British Library, Add. 14455

'''British Library, Add. 14455''', [[Syriac language|Syriac]] [[manuscript]] of the [[New Testament]], on parchment. [[Palaeography|Palaeographically]] it had been assigned to the 6th century. It is a manuscript of [[Peshitta]]. The manuscript is very lacunose.<sup>[1]</sup>

==Description==

It contains the text of the four [[Gospel]]s, on 135 parchment leaves (14 ¾ by 11 ¾ inches), with large and numerous [[Lacuna (manuscript)|lacunae]] ([[Matthew 1:1]]-[[Matthew 8:32|8:32]]; [[Matthew 9:11|9:11]]-[[Matthew 9:35|35]]; 10:22-11:4; 11:19-14:17; 14:30-22:2; 22:16-23:25; 23:35-fin.; [[Mark 1:1]]-12:43; 13:10-21; 13:34-14:66; [[Luke 8:29]]-39; 9:14-36; 10:12-17; 12:25-46; 13:19-14:16; 15:4-16:5; 19:23-22:24; 22:58-23:35; 24:17-29; [[John 4:10]]-[[John 4:23|23]]; [[John 4:47|4:47]]-[[John 5:5|5:5]]; [[John 12:37|12:37]]-[[John 12:49|49]]; [[John 13:9|13:9]]-fin.). Some of leaves are much stained and torn. The manuscript is in imperfect condition.<sup>[1]</sup>

Written in two columns per page, in 15-21 lines per page. The writing is a large, beautiful [[Estrangela]]. The Ammonian Sections and [[Eusebian Canons]] are marked in the text with the red ink. Some lessons are rubricated in the text, and many margin notes were added by a later hand<sup>[1]</sup>

The manuscript is housed at the [[British Library]] (Additional Manuscripts 14455) in London.<sup>[1]</sup>

==See also==

* [[List of the Syriac New Testament manuscripts]]
* [[Syriac versions of the Bible]]
* [[Biblical manuscript]]
* [[Codex Phillipps 1388]]
* [[British Library, Add. 12140]]

==References==

* 1. William Wright, Catalogue of the Syriac manuscripts in the British Museum (2002), p. 45.

==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=PA45&lpg=#v=onepage&q=&f=false William Wright, ''Catalogue of the Syriac manuscripts in the British Museum'']
* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Library,_Add._14455 Wikipedia Article on British Library, Add. 14455]

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