page_title: Codex Zacynthius
section_title: Palimpsest
hierarchical_section_title: Codex Zacynthius / Palimpsest
caption_attribution_description: English: A palimpsest, the underwriting is 7th-century majuscule of Luke 3:7-8 with commentary; the upper writing is 13th-century minuscule of Matthew 26:39-51, part lection for Holy Thursday Ελληνικά: Χειρόγραφο παλίμψηστο. Αρχικά περιείχε κεφαλαιογράμματο απόσπασμα από το Κατὰ Λουκᾶν 3:7-8 (7ος αι.), το οποίο σβήστηκε για να αντικατασταθεί από μικρογράμματο απόσπασμα από το Κατὰ Ματθαῖον 26:39-51 που διαβάζεται τη Μεγάλη Πέμπτη (13ος αι.).
context_page_description: Codex Zacynthius is a Greek New Testament codex, dated paleographically to the 6th century. First thought to have been written in the 8th century, it is a palimpsest—the original text was washed off its vellum pages and overwritten in the 12th or 13th century. The upper text of the palimpsest contains weekday Gospel lessons; the lower text contains portions of the Gospel of Luke, deciphered by biblical scholar and palaeographer Tregelles in 1861. The lower text is of most interest to scholars.
  The manuscript came from Zakynthos, a Greek island, and has survived in a fragmentary condition. It was brought to England in 1821 and transferred to Cambridge University in 1985. It is often cited in critical editions of the Greek New Testament.
context_section_description: The codex is a palimpsest, meaning that the original text was scraped off and overwritten and the parchment leaves folded in half. The upper text was written by a minuscule hand and contains lectionary 299 (ℓ 299) from the 12th or 13th century, though the lectionary text is not complete; it is written on 176 leaves (28.7 cm by 18.2 cm), in one column per page, 33-36 lines per page. Three folios are only the lower halves of leaves, one folio was supplied with paper (folio LXVIII). The manuscript contains weekday Gospel lessons (Evangelistarium), but is lacunose. Tregelles did not collate its text because of its secondary value. Scrivener designated it by siglum 200,
  Gregory by 299.
  Lectionary 299 in Mark 6:33 has textual reading ἐκεῖ καὶ προῆλθον αὐτούς along with Codex Sinaiticus, Codex Vaticanus, 0187 (omit εκει), 892, ℓ 49, ℓ 69, ℓ 70, ℓ 303, ℓ 333, ℓ 1579, (ℓ 950 αυτους), itᵃᵘʳ, vg, (copsa, bo).
  The text of the lectionary is cited in some critical editions of the Greek New Testament (UBS3) in the following places: Matthew 10:4; 11:17; 12:47; 13:13; 14:22; 18:10; 22:30; 26:27; 28:9; Mark 1:27; 2:10.26; 4:16.20; 6:2.2.3.33. It is not cited in UBS4.
caption: The underwriting is 7th-century majuscule of Luke 3:7-8 with commentary; the upper writing is 13th-century minuscule of Matthew 26:39-51, part lection for Holy Thursday
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