The OT citations were marked by an inverted comma or diplai (>).
The first letter of a new chapter sometimes protrudes a little from the column. : 262–263 Punctuation is rare (accents and breathings have been added by a later hand) except for some blank spaces, diaeresis on initial iotas and upsilons, abbreviations of the nomina sacra and markings of OT citations. All the letters are equidistant from each other no word is separated from the other, with each line appearing to be one long word. The Greek lettering in the codex is written continuously in small and neat letters. The other two Greek codices written in that way are Uncial 048 and Uncial 053. The manuscript is one of the very few New Testament manuscripts to be written with three columns per page. There are 44 lines in a column in the Pentateuch, Joshua, Judges, Ruth, and 1 Kings 1:1–19:11 in 2 Chronicles 10:16–26:13 there are 40 lines in a column and in the New Testament always 42. In the poetical books of the Old Testament (OT) there are only two columns to a page. The codex is written in three columns per page, with 40–44 lines per page, and 16–18 letters per line. The Old Testament currently consists of 617 sheets and the New Testament of 142 sheets.
Originally it must have been composed of 830 parchment leaves, but it appears that 71 leaves have been lost. The number of the quires is often found in the margin. The manuscript is in quarto volume, written on 759 leaves of fine and thin vellum (sized 27 cm by 27 cm, although originally bigger), in uncial letters, arranged in quires of five sheets or ten leaves each, similar to Codex Marchalianus or Codex Rossanensis but unlike Codex Sinaiticus which has an arrangement of four or three sheets. : 67 Description Ending of Luke and Beginning of John on the same page The codex is named after its place of conservation in the Vatican Library, where it has been kept since at least the 15th century. : 26–30 Codex Vaticanus "is rightly considered to be the oldest extant copy of the Bible." The most widely sold editions of the Greek New Testament are largely based on the text of the Codex Vaticanus. It was extensively used by Westcott and Hort in their edition of The New Testament in the Original Greek in 1881. Until the discovery by Tischendorf of Sinaiticus, Vaticanus was unrivalled. Most current scholars consider Codex Vaticanus to be one of the most important Greek witnesses to the Greek text of the New Testament, followed by Codex Sinaiticus. : 68 It was at that point that scholars became more familiar with the text and how it differed from the Textus Receptus.
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In the 19th century transcriptions of the full codex were completed. The codex's relationship to the Latin Vulgate and the value Jerome placed on it is unclear. Portions of the codex were collated by several scholars, but numerous errors were made during this process. The manuscript became known to Western scholars as a result of correspondence between Erasmus and the prefects of the Vatican Library. The codex has been dated palaeographically to the 4th century. : 68 Along with Codex Alexandrinus and Codex Sinaiticus, it is one of the earliest and most complete manuscripts of the Bible. It is one of the four great uncial codices. 1209), designated by siglum B or 03 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), δ 1 ( von Soden), is a fourth-century Christian manuscript of a Greek Bible, containing the majority of the Greek Old Testament and the majority of the Greek New Testament. Cozza, Bibliorum Sacrorum Graecus Codex Vaticanus, Roma 1868. Greek Old Testament and Greek New TestamentĬ. Page from Codex Vaticanus ending of 2 Thes and beginning of Heb
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