Nomina sacra in an unpublished Ms of Luke (Ms BnF, Suppl. gr. 911, year 1043)

Abstract

In this article I attempt to study the abbreviations of the nomina sacra in an unpublished MS, dated in the year 1043 by the scribe himself. The MS contains, leaving aside a few lacunae, a complete Graeco-Arabic of Luke's Gospel. I draw a comparison between its system of abbreviations and that of the papyri of the first eight centuries AD and that of Codex Bezae Cantabrigensis, thus proving one of the New Testament MSS of the late Middle Ages which shows a greater number of abbreviations for the nomina sacra whith a most regular abbreviation system.