Oriental MS 1001,

Bohairic Bohairic is a dialect of the Coptic language, the latest stage of the Egyptian language. Bohairic is attested from the eighth century CE, and has been the chief liturgical language of the Coptic Orthodox Church since the eleventh century. Termino ...

uncial Uncial is a majuscule script (written entirely in capital letters) commonly used from the 4th to 8th centuries AD by Latin and Greek scribes. Uncial letters were used to write Greek and Latin, as well as Gothic, and are the current style for ...

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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 paper. Palaeographically it has been assigned to the 12th century. Several leaves of the codex were lost. Horner designated the manuscript by

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E₂.

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It contains a complete text of the four

Gospel Gospel originally meant the Christianity, Christian message ("the gospel"), but in the second century Anno domino, AD the term (, from which the English word originated as a calque) came to be used also for the books in which the message w ...

s on 270 paper leaves (24.7 by 16.3 cm), in octavo. It has two lacunae (

Matthew Matthew may refer to: * Matthew (given name) * Matthew (surname) * ''Matthew'' (album), a 2000 album by rapper Kool Keith * Matthew (elm cultivar), a cultivar of the Chinese Elm ''Ulmus parvifolia'' Christianity * Matthew the Apostle, one of ...

1:1-4:24: John 16:33–17:14). Six leaves at the beginning were supplied by a later hand. The text is written in two columns per page, 32 lines per page.George Horner
''The Coptic Version of the New Testament in the Northern Dialect, otherwise called Memphitic and Bohairic''
1 vol. (1898), p. LXXXIV It contains Prolegomena, tables of the before each Gospel, numbers of the (chapters) are given at the margin in Coptic and Greek, the Ammonian Sections (cursive), a references to the

Eusebian Canons Eusebian canons, Eusebian sections or Eusebian apparatus, also known as Ammonian sections, are the system of dividing the four Gospels used between late antiquity and the Middle Ages. The divisions into Chapters and verses of the Bible, chapters ...

(cursive and red), geometric figures before

Mark Mark may refer to: In the Bible * Mark the Evangelist (5–68), traditionally ascribed author of the Gospel of Mark * Gospel of Mark, one of the four canonical gospels and one of the three synoptic gospels Currencies * Mark (currency), a currenc ...

and

John John is a common English name and surname: * John (given name) * John (surname) John may also refer to: New Testament Works * Gospel of John, a title often shortened to John * First Epistle of John, often shortened to 1 John * Second E ...

, and archaic letters before Mark,

Luke Luke may refer to: People and fictional characters * Luke (given name), including a list of people and fictional characters with the name * Luke (surname), including a list of people with the name * Luke the Evangelist, author of the Gospel of Luk ...

, and John. No pictures. The

nomina sacra In Christian scribal practice, (singular: , Latin for 'sacred name') is the abbreviation of several frequently occurring divine names or titles, especially in Greek manuscripts of the Bible. A consists of two or more letters from the original w ...

are written in an abbreviated way. It contains texts of Like 23:34 and the John 7:53-8:11, but lacks text of Luke 22:43-44 and John 5:3.4. There is an insertion on folio 123: : "And the number of the great chapters according to what is established in the writings of the orthodox is 84 Greek chapters, Coptic 97 lessons, and small 342, in common 270, peculiar 72, and the number of his words 3000. And these are the great Greek chapters."

History

On folio 77b it contains note written by Athanasius, Bishop of Apotheke or Abutij, A.D. 1792, states that the original date of the manuscript was Mart 1192. This date is also repeated fol. 264b. The manuscript was bought on 21 May 1869 of N. Nassif for the

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. Lightfoot, Arthur Headlam examined a few places.

Constantin von Tischendorf Constantin is an Aromanian language, Aromanian, Megleno-Romanian language, Megleno-Romanian and Romanian language, Romanian male given name. It can also be a surname. For a list of notable people called Constantin, see Constantine (name). See ...

''New Testament ''
Editio Octava Critica Maior, vol. III, p. 870 Horner saw the manuscript in 1892 (Matthew and Mark). He 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 vol. (1898), pp. LXXXI-LXXXIV Currently it is housed at the

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(Oriental 1001) in

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