{{New Testament manuscript infobox | form = Lectionary | number = '''ℓ''' ''55'' | image = | isize = | caption= | name = | sign = | text = Evangelistarion, Apostolos | script = Greek | date = '''1602''' | found = | now at = State Historical Museum | cite = | size = {{×|20.5|16.5|cm}} | type = | cat = | hand = wretchedly written | note = }} '''Lectionary 55''', designated by siglum '''ℓ''' ''55'' (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), is a Greek manuscript of the New Testament, on paper leaves. It is dated by a colophon to the year 1602.<ref name = Aland>{{Cite book | last = Aland | first = Kurt | author-link = Kurt Aland |author2=M. Welte |author3=B. Köster |author4=K. Junack | title = Kurzgefasste Liste der griechischen Handschriften des Neues Testaments | publisher = Walter de Gruyter | year = 1994 | location = Berlin, New York | page = 222 | isbn = 3-11-011986-2 }}</ref>

== Description ==

The codex is an Euchologium with lessons from the Old Testament and 107 lessons from the New Testament. It is a lectionary (''Evangelistarion'', ''Apostolos''),<ref name = Gregory>{{Cite book | last = Gregory | first = Caspar René | author-link = Caspar René Gregory | title = Textkritik des Neuen Testaments | publisher = J.C. Hinrichs | year = 1900 | location = Leipzig | volume = 1 | page = 392 | url = https://archive.org/stream/textkritikdesne00greggoog#page/n405/mode/2up }}</ref> on 581 paper leaves ({{×|20.5|16.5|cm}}). It is written in Greek minuscule letters, in one column per page, in 18-24 lines per page.{{r|Aland}}

== History ==

The manuscript was written in Venice in 1602. It came from the monastery of Vatopedi on the Athos.<ref>{{Cite book | last = Scrivener | first = Frederick Henry Ambrose | author-link = Frederick Henry Ambrose Scrivener |author2=Edward Miller | title = A Plain Introduction to the Criticism of the New Testament | publisher = George Bell & Sons | year = 1861 | location = London | page = 214 }}</ref> The manuscript was examined by Matthaei.{{r|Gregory}}

The manuscript is sporadically cited in the critical editions of the Greek New Testament (UBS3).<ref>''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), p. XXX.</ref>

Currently the codex is located in the State Historical Museum, (V. 264, S. 454) in Moscow.{{r|Aland}}

== See also ==

* List of New Testament lectionaries * Biblical manuscript * Textual criticism

== Notes and references ==

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Lectionary 0055}} Category:Greek New Testament lectionaries Category:16th-century biblical manuscripts Category:Athos manuscripts Category:Vatopedi