KORE.—4. (s7p) The eponym of a Korahite guild of door-keepers, 1 Ch 915. 2. (ΝΡ) Son of Immah, a Leyvite in the time of Hezekiah, 2 Ch 3119,
KUSHAIAH.—See KisHL
L
L.—1. This symbol was proposed by de Lagarde (Genesis grace, 1868, p. 12) to denote the illumin- ated Purple Manuscript of the Greek Genesis at Vienna, one of the chief. specimens of Christian book-illumination. The manuscript is designated VI by Holmes, and the text has been edited by him from a copy of Alter, 1795, in a publication Sey to the great Oxford Septuagint (title :
onorabili, et admodum reverendo, Shute Bar- rington, LL.D. Episcopo Dunelmensi, Epistola, complexa GENESIN, ex codice purpureo-argenteo Cesareo - Vindobonensi expressam ; et Testamenti Veteris Graci, versionis septuaginta -viralis, cum variis lectionibus denuo edendi, Specimen. Dedit Robertus Holmes, S.T.P. Oxonii, Mpccxcvy fol.). It is a parallel to the famous Codex Cottonianus
Geneseos in the British Museum, and has not been |
used by Swete for his edition of the Greek OT
(vol. i. 2nd ed. 1895),* because at that time it was |
not yet published in full facsimile. This has been done since in the splendid work, Die Wiener Genesis herausgegeben von Wilhelm Ritter von Hartel und Franz Wickhoff. Beilage zum xv. und xvi. Bande des Jahrbuches der Kunsthistori- schen Sammlungen des Allerhéchsten Kaiser- hauses. Mit 52 Lichtdrucktalfeln, ete. Wien (Prag, Leipzig), F. Tempsky, 1895 fol. (the Greek text in transcription, pp. 102-125). An exhaustive mono- graph on the pictures of the MS‘has recently been published by a pupil of Prof. V. Schultze of Greifswald, Willy Γαδ 6, Untersuchungen zu den Miniaturen der Wiener Genesis (Inaugural Dis- sertation, Greifswald, 1897, 50 pp.). Liidtke con- siders the volume as the first known manuscript of the Bible in which pictures are connected with the text, the first illustrated book of Bible story, and is inclined to assign it to the latter half of the 5th cent. E. M. Thompson (Handbook of Greek and Latin Paleography, 1893, p. 154) makes it prob- ably of the latter half of the 6th cent. ; Kenyon, of the 5th or 6th cent. The text is sometimes abbreviated, and several passages are very difficult to read ; the MS is therefore less important for the textual criticism of the Greek OT; but it is a monu- ment of the first rank in the history of Christian art. Attached to the codex are two leaves from the purple MS of the New Testament, called N.
2. In the criticism of the NT the symbol L is used to designate the Codex Regius, a manuscript of the Greek Gospels preserved in the National Library of Paris, now numbered 62. It was known aed to Stephen, who called it 7, as is stated in the volume by a later hand, ‘ Roberto Stephano 7.’ Scrivener (Introduction to the NT, 4th ed. (1894)
. 138) overlooked this ἡ, and misunderstood, there- ore, this entry when he wrote, ‘it was even then in the Royal Library, although ‘Roberto Stephano” is marked in the volume.’ Griesbach rated the MS very high: Tischendorf published it in full in his Monumenta sacra inedita, 1846. It is ascribed to the 8th cent., and was for a long time unique, as giving two alternative endings to the Gospel of Mark, namely—besides and before the received one, which is introduced by the head- ing ἔστιν δὲ καὶ ταῦτα φερόμενα μετὰ τό" ἐφοβοῦντο γάρ, a shorter ending, printed by Westcott-Hort after the one just mentioned. This wretched supple- ment, as Scrivener styles it, is separated in this MS from the words “ἢ the text (ἐφοβοῦντο γάρ) by an ornamented line, and introduced by the τος -
* Τῷ readings will find a place in the Apparatus of the larger edition, which is now being prepared by Brooke and M‘Lean,
LABAN
ing φέρεταί που καὶ ταῦτα. Recently it has been found in several Greek, Latin, Syriac, and Ethiopie documents, the nearest ally to L being a mann- script on Mount Sinai (A™), ascribed to the 7th cent. The latter has the subscription εὐαγγέλιον κατὰ Μάρκον immediately after ἐφοβοῦντο γάρ; then follows the shorter supplement (whether intro- duced by the same formula as in L is not certain, the MS being defective at that place) with slight variations (om. καί befere ἄχρι, adds ἀμήν atter σωτηρία) ; after this comes ἔστιν δὲ καὶ ταῦτα ete. On the questions connected with the end of St. Mark see the monograph of Dean Burgon (1871); P. Martin, Introduction ἃ la critique textuelle du NT, Partie pratique, tome ii. (1884); Westcott- Hort, V7, App. 28-51, with the additional notes to pp. 38 and 51 on p. 142 of the reprint of 1896; J. R. arris, ‘On the alternative ending of St. Mark’s Gospel,’ Journ. of Biblical Literature (1894), pp. 96- 103; H. B. Swete, The Gospel according to St. Mark (1898), p. xeviff.; Th. Zahn, Linlettung in das Neue Testament (1899), ii. pp. 227-235, 237- 240. The shorter ending had its origin probably in Egypt; there also L seems to have been written. On the third leaf of the MS is a note by a later hand, which might show where the MS was before it came to Europe, if it could be read and inter- Ῥεῖ with certainty (a Georgios τοῦ Λιἀσκόβιτη eft some MSS els τοῦΙωάννου τοῦ Παύλου τὸ ὀσπίτιον). Facsimiles are to be found in Tischendorf, plate 1. n. 7, plate iii. n. 7; Scrivener, plate ix. n. 21; P. Martin, Description technique des manuscrits grecs relatifs au NT conservées ἥδὴς les bibliothéques de Paris (1884), plate 1. Es. NESTLE.