Codex Vaticanus

E19398

Codex Vaticanus is a 4th-century Greek biblical manuscript held in the Vatican Library and regarded as one of the oldest and most important witnesses to the text of the Bible.


Statements (47)
Predicate Object
instanceOf 4th-century manuscript
Greek uncial manuscript
New Testament manuscript
Old Testament manuscript
biblical manuscript
alsoKnownAs 03 GENERATED
B GENERATED
Vaticanus Graecus 1209 GENERATED
associatedWithInstitution Holy See GENERATED
columnsPerPage 3 GENERATED
conservationStatus well preserved for its age GENERATED
contains New Testament GENERATED
Old Testament (Septuagint) GENERATED
containsOrderOfNTBooks Gospels, Acts, Catholic Epistles, Pauline Epistles, Hebrews before Pastoral Epistles GENERATED
currentNumberOfLeaves approximately 700+ GENERATED
dateOfOrigin 4th century GENERATED
hasAccentsAndBreathings partly added by later hands GENERATED
hasDigitalFacsimile yes GENERATED
hasLaterCorrections yes GENERATED
hasMarginalia yes GENERATED
hasMissingPortions yes GENERATED
inkColor brown GENERATED
language Koine Greek GENERATED
linesPerColumn about 40–44 GENERATED
locationCity Vatican City GENERATED
material vellum GENERATED
missingContent 1 Timothy
2 Timothy
Philemon
Revelation
Titus
end of Hebrews
most of Genesis GENERATED
parts of Psalms
originalNumberOfLeaves approximately 759 GENERATED
placeHeld Vatican Library GENERATED
scriptType uncial script GENERATED
shelfMark Vat. gr. 1209 GENERATED
significance one of the most important witnesses to the Septuagint GENERATED
one of the most important witnesses to the text of the New Testament GENERATED
one of the oldest extant manuscripts of the Greek Bible GENERATED
textType Alexandrian text-type GENERATED
usedInCriticalEditions Nestle-Aland Novum Testamentum Graece GENERATED
United Bible Societies Greek New Testament
writingDirection left-to-right GENERATED
writingMaterial fine parchment GENERATED
writingSystem Greek GENERATED


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