Lectionary 281, designated by

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ℓ ''281'' (in the Gregory-Aland numbering) is a

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of the

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, on parchment. Palaeographically it has been assigned to the 14th century.''Handschriftenliste''
at the ''INTF''

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labelled it as 160^e. The manuscript has complex contents.

Description

The codex contains lessons from the

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, and

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(''Evangelistarium''). The text is written in Greek

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letters, on 236 parchment leaves (), in two columns per page, 27 (and more) lines per page. The manuscript contains weekday Gospel lessons. It contains the text of the

Pericope Adulterae Jesus and the woman taken in adultery (or the ) is a passage (pericope) found in John 7:53–John 8#Pericope adulterae, 8:11 of the New Testament. It is considered by many to be Pseudepigrapha, pseudepigraphical. In the passage, Jesus was t ...

(John 8:3-11).

History

Scrivener and Gregory dated the manuscript to the 14th century. It has been assigned by the

Institute for New Testament Textual Research The Institute for New Testament Textual Research ( — INTF) at the University of Münster, Westphalia, Germany, is to research the textual history of the New Testament and to reconstruct its Greek initial text on the basis of the entire manusc ...

to the 14th century. The manuscript was written one Anthimus. The manuscript was added to the list of New Testament manuscripts by Scrivener (number 160^e) and Gregory (number 281^e). Gregory saw the manuscript in 1886. The manuscript is not cited in the critical editions of the Greek New Testament (UBS3).''The Greek New Testament'', ed. K. Aland, A. Black, C. M. Martini, B. M. Metzger, and A. Wikgren, in cooperation with INTF, ''United Bible Societies'', 3rd edition, (Stuttgart 1983), pp. XXVIII, XXX. The codex is housed at the ''

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'' (3638) in

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Lectionary 0281 Greek New Testament lectionaries 14th-century biblical manuscripts

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