Volume / Number: S / 1720

• Manchester United Kingdom John Rylands Library Gr. 472

Origin uncertain. African symptoms are in evidence, and it is worth noting that the size of the written space and of the over-all page corresponds closely to that of Codex k of the Gospels (CLA 4.465) which we have every reason to believe is of African origin. The liturgy is manifestly a translation from the Greek. Found in Egypt. Acquired by the John Rylands Library in 1917.

Script is of the distinct type seen in the Livy Epitome and other manuscripts enumerated in CLA 12.1677: the bow of A is pointed and the second stroke tends to be curved as in many early Greek manuscripts; h and H; i after r and ꞇ often rises above the line, a feature apparently borrowed from the Greek; the foot of L extends diagonally below the next letter, as in cursive; n and N; o is often tiny, a sign of Greek influence; the stems of r and ꞅ go below the line; ꞅ as a rule lacks the third stroke; u is cup-shaped; li ligature occurs.