Codex Vaticanus
A fourth-century Greek Bible has been continuously held and catalogued since the fifteenth century.
Nombrado fuera de la BibliaManuscritomid-4th century AD
A fourth-century Greek Bible on fine parchment, three columns to a page, listed in the Vatican's first catalogue in 1475 and never lost. With Sinaiticus it is the base of most modern critical editions of the New Testament.
Old and New Testament in Greek, written in three columns of forty-two lines.
- Hallado
- In the Vatican Library since at least 1475
- Se conserva en
- Vatican Apostolic Library, Rome (Vat. gr. 1209)
- Lengua
- Greek
- Cómo llegó hasta nosotros
- Nunca enterrado: copiado a mano, generación tras generación, hasta la imprenta.
Qué muestra
It is incomplete: the end of Hebrews, the Pastoral Epistles and Revelation are missing from the original hand.
Cómo lo usan los historiadores
With Sinaiticus, the backbone of the modern critical text.
En la Escritura
Fuentes
Por ahora estos textos están en inglés. Las traducciones llegarán.