Editing Codex Zacynthius (section)

== Palimpsest ==
[[Image:Zacynthius Lc 3,7-8 (Mt26,39-51).jpg|thumb|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]]
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,<sup>[]</sup> though the lectionary text is not complete; it is written on 176 leaves ({{×|28.7|18.2|cm}}), in one column per page, 33-36 lines per page.<sup>[]</sup> Three folios are only the lower halves of leaves, one folio was supplied with paper (folio LXVIII).<sup>[]</sup> The manuscript contains weekday Gospel lessons (''Evangelistarium''),<sup>[]</sup> but is [[wiktionary:lacunose|lacunose]].<sup>[]</sup> Tregelles did not collate its text because of its secondary value.<sup>[]</sup> Scrivener designated it by siglum 200,<sup>[]</sup>
Gregory by 299.<sup>[]</sup>

Lectionary 299 in Mark 6:33 has textual reading ἐκεῖ καὶ προῆλθον αὐτούς along with [[Codex Sinaiticus]], [[Codex Vaticanus]], [[Uncial 0187|0187]] (omit εκει), [[Minuscule 892|892]], [[Lectionary 49|'''ℓ''' ''49'']], [[Lectionary 69|'''ℓ''' ''69'']], [[Lectionary 70|'''ℓ''' ''70'']], [[Lectionary 303|'''ℓ''' ''303'']], '''ℓ''' ''333'', '''ℓ''' ''1579'', ('''ℓ''' ''950'' αυτους), it<sup>aur</sup>, vg, ([[Coptic versions of the Bible|cop<sup>sa, bo</sup>]]).<sup>[]</sup>

The text of the lectionary is cited in some critical editions of the Greek New Testament (UBS3)<sup>[]</sup> 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.<sup>[]</sup> It is not cited in UBS4.<sup>[]</sup>