British Library, Add MS 14479, is a Syriac manuscript of the New Testament, on parchment. It is dated by a colophon to the year 534. It is one of the oldest manuscripts of Peshitta and the earliest dated Peshitta Apostolos.Bruce M. Metzger, The Early Versions of the New Testament: Their Origin, Transmission and Limitations (Oxford University Press 1977), p. 51.
Description It contains the text of the fourteen Pauline epistles, on 101 leaves (), with only three lacunae (folio 1, 29, and 38). Written in one column per page, in 25-33 lines per page. The Epistle to the Hebrews is placed after Philemon.William Wright, Catalogue of the Syriac manuscripts in the British Museum (2002), p. 86. Numerous Syriac vowels and signs of punctuations have been added by a Nestorian hand, as well as a few Greek vowels by another reader.
It was written for the monastery in Edessa, in a small, elegant Estrangela hand in the year 533–534. The first folio was supplemented by a later hand in the twelfth century, folio 28 and 39 were supplemented in the thirteenth century.
The manuscript is housed at the British Library (Additional Manuscripts 14479) in London.
See also
List of the Syriac New Testament manuscripts Other manuscripts Codex Phillipps 1388 British Library, Add MS 14455 British Library, Add MS 14459 British Library, Add MS 14669 Sortable articles Syriac versions of the Bible Biblical manuscript
References
Further reading
William Wright, Catalogue of the Syriac manuscripts in the British Museum (1870; reprint: Gorgias Press 2002).
External links
William Wright, Catalogue of the Syriac manuscripts in the British Museum