Syriac Epistles, British Library, Add. 14479

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.^[1]

Description

It contains the text of the fourteen Pauline epistles,^[2] on 101 leaves (8+7⁄8 by 5+1⁄2 in or 230 by 140 mm), 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.^[3][4] Numerous Syriac vowels and signs of punctuations have been added by a Nestorian hand, as well as a few Greek vowels by another reader.^[3]

It was written for the monastery in Edessa,^[4] in a small, elegant Estrangela hand in the year 533–534.^[1] The first folio was supplemented by a later hand in the twelfth century, folio 28 and 39 were supplemented in the thirteenth century.^[3]

The manuscript is housed at the British Library (Additional Manuscripts 14479) in London.^[1]

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

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