Codex Marshall Or. 6, is a Coptic language#Bohairic, Bohairic-Greek language, Greek, Uncial script, uncial manuscript of the New Testament, on a paper. It is dated by the Colophon (publishing), Colophon to the year 1320.

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It contains the text of the four Gospels on 235 paper leaves (23.8 by 19.5) with Lacuna (manuscripts), lacunae (several leaves at the end, they were supplied by a later hand). The text is written in 1 column per page, 26-27 lines per page. It contains numerals of the (''chapters''), in Greek, at the left margin, the Ammonian Sections, (not the Eusebian Canons), and pictures. The Euthalian Apparatus was added in 1641. The manuscript lacks the additions in Christ's agony at Gethsemane (Luke 22:43.44); 23:17; John 5:3.4 (the descent of the angel); Jesus and the woman taken in adultery, Pericope Adulterae (7:53-8:11).Constantin von Tischendorf
''Editio Octava maiora''
vol. III, p. 849. In the catalogue the date of a donation is given as Mart 1498 A.D. The manuscript was examined by Lightfoot and Headlam. George William Horner, Horner used it in his edition of the Bohairic New Testament.George Horner, ''The Coptic Version of the New Testament in the Northern Dialect, otherwise called Memphitic and Bohairic'', 4 vols. (1898-1905; repr. Osnabrück: 1969). Currently it is housed at the Bodleian Library (Marshall Or. 6) in Oxford.

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{{refend Coptic New Testament manuscripts 14th-century biblical manuscripts Bodleian Library collection

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