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The great uncial codices or four great uncials are the only remaining uncial codices that contain (or originally contained) the entire text of the Bible (Old and New Testament) in Greek. They are the Codex Vaticanus in the Vatican Library, the Codex Sinaiticus and the Codex Alexandrinus in the British Library, and the Codex Ephraemi Rescriptus in the Bibliothèque nationale de France in Paris.

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Great uncial codices

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The great uncial codices or four great uncials are the only remaining uncial codices that contain (or originally contained) the entire text of the Bible...

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Uncial script

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Greek uncials are: Codex Sinaiticus Codex Vaticanus Codex Alexandrinus – these being three of what are often called the four great uncial codices Codex...

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Codex Vaticanus

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and the majority of the Greek New Testament. It is one of the four great uncial codices.: 68  Along with Codex Alexandrinus and Codex Sinaiticus, it is one...

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Codex Sinaiticus

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Shepherd of Hermas included. It is written in uncial letters on parchment. It is one of the four great uncial codices (these being manuscripts which originally...

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Codex Ephraemi Rescriptus

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as in codices Alexandrinus and Vaticanus. The beginning sections have larger letters which stand out in the margin (similar to those in codices Codex...

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Comparison of codices Sinaiticus and Vaticanus

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Codex Sinaiticus and Codex Vaticanus, two of the great uncial codices, representatives of the Alexandrian text-type, are considered excellent manuscript...

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Codex Alexandrinus

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Old Testament and the Greek New Testament. It is one of the four Great uncial codices (these being manuscripts which originally contained the whole of...

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Book of Revelation

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in the Codex Vaticanus (4th century), it is extant in the other great uncial codices: the Codex Sinaiticus (4th century), the Codex Alexandrinus (5th...

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Number of the beast

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figure 616 in the Codex Ephraemi Rescriptus (C; Paris—one of the four great uncial codices), as well as in the Latin version of Tyconius (DCXVI, ed. Souter...

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Vulgate

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New Testament demonstrates the Alexandrian text-type found in the great uncial codices of the mid-4th century, most similar to the Codex Sinaiticus. The...

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Diatessaron

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Shedinger writes that in quotations to the Old Testament where the great uncial codices have κύριος and the Hebrew OT manuscripts יהוה (YHWH), Tatian wrote...

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Bible translations

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paragraphs in various New Testament books: it is one of the four great uncial codices. The earliest surviving complete single-volume manuscript of the...

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List of New Testament uncials

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Wettstein knew of only 23 uncial codices of the New Testament. By 1859, Constantin von Tischendorf had increased that number to 64 uncials, and in 1909 Caspar...

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British Library

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majority of the Old Testament and New Testament and one of the four Great uncial codices (400–440 AD) Jacob Manuscript, the second oldest extant Syriac manuscript...

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Third Epistle of John

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many of the old manuscripts of the New Testament. Of the Greek great uncial codices, codices Sinaiticus, Alexandrinus, and Vaticanus contain all three Johannine...

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Great Lavra

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manuscripts and 165 codices. Among them uncial manuscripts of the New Testament: Codex Coislinianus, Codex Athous Lavrensis, Uncial 049, Uncial 0167, and minuscules...

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Fifty Bibles of Constantine

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Eusebius on the Constantine order. Differences between codices Sinaiticus and Vaticanus Great uncial codices Eusebius, The Life of the Blessed Emperor Constantine...

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Palimpsest

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have survived to the present day. Uncial codices include: Porphyrianus, Vaticanus 2061 (double palimpsest), Uncial 064, 065, 066, 067, 068 (double palimpsest)...

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Biblical manuscript

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however, eight Christian manuscripts are codices. In fact, virtually all New Testament manuscripts are codices. The adaptation of the codex form in non-Christian...

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Palaeography

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persisted until at least the 5th century. The three great early codices of the Bible are all written in uncials of the biblical type. In the Vaticanus, placed...

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Edwin Leigh

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Leigh's document allowed theologians to easily compare three of the great uncial codices and the authorised version of the bible. In 1847, Leigh turned to...

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Codex Vaticanus 2061

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columns per page. The other two Greek codices written in that way are Codex Vaticanus (Uncial B/03) and Uncial 053. The trilingual minuscule codex 460...

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Coptic script

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Gnostic codices found at Nag Hammadi used the Coptic script. The Old Nubian alphabet—used to write Old Nubian, a Nilo-Saharan language—is an uncial variant...

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Papyrus Oxyrhynchus 18

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text is written in a good-sized round formal uncial hand. The style of writing resembles great biblical codices. It has deep margins. The fragment supports...

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List of manuscripts

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Testament papyri List of New Testament uncials List of New Testament Latin manuscripts Manuscript culture List of codices Book of Job in illuminated manuscripts...

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Codex Vaticanus 2066

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the Great, Gregory of Nyssa and others). The text is written in one column per page, 35 lines per page, in about 36 letters per line. The uncial letter...

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History of the Greek alphabet

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dated from the mid-9th to mid-10th century, are called codices vetustissimi ('oldest codices'). During the following centuries, this style of writing...

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White Monastery

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number of codices identified, but also in the wide variety of subjects it possessed. Today the library is scattered all over the world. Codices were dismembered...

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Illuminated manuscript

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various animals might be used. The pages were then normally bound into codices (singular: codex), that is the usual modern book format, although sometimes...

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