Bible. New Testament

Script Written in the Estrangelo hand. Contents Manuscript contains the whole New Testament including the Antilegomena epistles.On the first leaf a later hand has written "Simeon son of Joseph to Joseph son of Simeon." The rest of the quire is taken up with a list of lessons written in illuminated squares and circles.The gospel of Matthew ends on the verso of the third leaf with a designated quire. The outside leaf in...

Abstract

The collection is composed chiefly of manuscripts purchased by J. Rendel Harris (Haverford faculty member, 1886-1891) in Egypt, Palestine, and Lebanon. Manuscripts are written in Hebrew, Ethiopic, Syriac, Arabic, Armenian, Latin and other languages.

Contents

The work extends from fol. 2 to fol. 149, after which there are some pages of supplementary matter, chiefly the lives of the Apostles. The title of the book, which is somewhat erased on fol. 2, is repeated with some variations on fol. 149, and begins, (translated): "by the power of our Lord Jesus Christ we begin to write the composition made concerning the Orthodox Faith which is confessed by the Catholic Church."

Contents

Contains all the books of the New Testament in the order Ev., Act., Paul, Cath., Apoc.

Defective at beginning up to Matthew 2:22.