Bishop Brian Walton assigned Alexandrinus the capital Latin letter A in the Polyglot Bible (a multi-language version of the Bible with the different languages placed in parallel columns) of 1657. : 152 Then it was given to Charles I of England in the 17th century. It derives its name from the city of Alexandria (in Egypt), where it resided for a number of years before it was brought by the Eastern Orthodox Patriarch Cyril Lucaris from Alexandria to Constantinople (modern day Istanbul in Turkey). Along with Codex Sinaiticus and Vaticanus, it is one of the earliest and most complete manuscripts of the Bible. It is one of the four Great uncial codices (these being manuscripts which originally contained the whole of both the Old and New Testaments). It contains the majority of the Greek Old Testament and the Greek New Testament. Using the study of comparative writing styles ( palaeography), it has been dated to the fifth century. V-VIII), designated by the siglum A or 02 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering of New Testament manuscripts), δ 4 (in the von Soden numbering of New Testament manuscripts), is a manuscript of the Greek Bible, written on parchment. The Codex Alexandrinus (London, British Library, Royal MS 1. Greek Old Testament and Greek New Testament†īyzantine text-type in Gospels, alexandrian in rest of NTĬlose to □ 74 in Acts, and to □ 47 in Rev Folio 41v from the Codex Alexandrinus contains the end of the Gospel of Luke with the decorative tailpiece found at the end of each book
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