# Lectionary 55

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{{New Testament manuscript infobox
| form   = Lectionary
| number = '''ℓ''' ''55''
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| text   = Evangelistarion, Apostolos
| script = [Greek](/source/Greek_language)
| date   = '''1602'''
| found  = 
| now at = [State Historical Museum](/source/State_Historical_Museum)
| cite   = 
| size   = {{×|20.5|16.5|cm}}
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| hand   = wretchedly written
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'''Lectionary 55''', designated by [siglum](/source/siglum) '''ℓ''' ''55'' (in the [Gregory-Aland](/source/Biblical_manuscript) numbering), is a Greek [manuscript](/source/manuscript) of the [New Testament](/source/New_Testament), on paper leaves. It is dated by a [colophon](/source/Colophon_(publishing)) 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](/source/Walter_de_Gruyter)
  | year = 1994
  | location = Berlin, New York
  | page = 222
  | isbn = 3-11-011986-2 }}</ref> 

== Description ==

The codex is an [Euchologium](/source/Euchologion) with lessons from the [Old Testament](/source/Old_Testament) and 107 lessons from the [New Testament](/source/New_Testament). It is a [lectionary](/source/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](/source/Lower_case) 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](/source/Vatopedi_monastery) on the [Athos](/source/Mount_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](/source/A_Plain_Introduction_to_the_Criticism_of_the_New_Testament)
 | publisher = [George Bell & Sons](/source/George_Bell_%26_Sons)
 | year = 1861
 | location = London
 | page = 214
 }}</ref> 
The manuscript was examined by [Matthaei](/source/Christian_Frederick_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](/source/Allen_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](/source/State_Historical_Museum), (V. 264, S. 454) in [Moscow](/source/Moscow).{{r|Aland}}

== See also ==

* [List of New Testament lectionaries](/source/List_of_New_Testament_lectionaries)
* [Biblical manuscript](/source/Biblical_manuscript)
* [Textual criticism](/source/Textual_criticism)

== Notes and references ==

{{Reflist}}

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Category:Greek New Testament lectionaries
Category:16th-century biblical manuscripts
Category:Athos manuscripts
Category:Vatopedi

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