Kenneth Willis Clark Collection

The Kenneth Willis Clark Collection of Greek Manuscripts of the Duke University library contains 98 manuscripts - both as scrolls such as the Code - which are dated to the 9th to 17th century.

Professor H. Branscomb at Duke Divinity School, bought the manuscript of the Greek New Testament in a Munich bookstore. After his arrival in the library, it was named Duke Greek Ms. 1 This happened on February 19, 1931, was the beginning of the collection. Although the original intention was to collect only New Testament manuscripts, the collection today contains a range of different materials.

In this collection there are also 27 manuscripts, the texts of the New Testament contain. Among them are these numbers - Mss 4, 5, 6, 15, 22, 25, 31, 38, 60 and 64 Ms. 60, also known as the Codex Daltonianus, is the most remarkable in this group. It was written in the second half of the 11th century and includes commentary on the four Gospels.

There are also some lectionaries in the collection, which are represented by MSS. 1, 2, 10, 12, 20, 24, 27, 28, 39, 43, 65, 82, 83, 85

Two lectionaries are particularly noteworthy: Ms 65 Ms 65 and 85 ( ℓ 1839) was written in the 11th century. Ms. 85 ( ℓ 451) is signed by Clemet the monk who is on July 20, indiction 5, in the year 6560 [ ie 1052 A.D. ]. This signature makes it one of the earliest dated Greek lectionaries manuscripts. Another manuscript, Ms. 39, was written by Luke the writer. A large-format Lectionary was written on paper and produced 1626-1629.