Huntington 17 is a bilingual Bohairic-

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of the

New Testament The New Testament (NT) is the second division of the Christian biblical canon. It discusses the teachings and person of Jesus in Christianity, Jesus, as well as events relating to Christianity in the 1st century, first-century Christianit ...

, on a paper. It is dated by a colophon to the year 1174. It is the oldest manuscript with complete text of the four

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s in Bohairic.

Description

It contains the text of the four

s on 457 paper leaves (25.3 by 17.5 cm). The text is written in two columns per page, 20 lines per page. It contains a great number of marginal additions inserted by a later hand. Among these marginal additions it has the doxology in Matthew 6:13, in Luke 1:28 phrase are written in smaller hand; Luke 22:43–44 (the agony); 23:17; 23:34; Pericope Adultera (John 7:53-8:11). On the other hand, the descent of the angel (John 5:3.4), which is wanting in many Bohairic manuscripts, stands in the text here. The text is not divided according to the Ammonian Sections. It contains portraits of the Evangelists before each Gospel. It has some itacistic errors.George Horner
''The Coptic Version of the New Testament in the Northern Dialect, otherwise called Memphitic and Bohairic''
1 vol. (1898), p. XXXVIII It has some notes at the margin from later hand. According to Gregory its text is very good. It contains two endings of the

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History

The manuscript was written by Joannes, a monk and scribe,

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''Editio Octava Critica maiora''
vol. III, p. 869. in 1174. The manuscript was brought by Wilkins in 1683 from Egypt. It was examined by J B Lightfoot and Headlam (1889). Horner used it in his edition of the Bohairic New Testament as a basis for the text of the Gospels.George Horner
''The Coptic Version of the New Testament in the Northern Dialect, otherwise called Memphitic and Bohairic''
1-2 vol. (1898). Currently it is housed at the

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(Huntington 17) in

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MS Huntington 17
In the Fihrist Union Catalogue of Manuscripts from the Islamicate World Coptic New Testament manuscripts 12th-century biblical manuscripts Bodleian Library collection

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