AUTHOR: UNKNOWN

LANGUAGE: GREEK

DATE: 5TH CENTURY

PAGE #: 294

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HISTORY/DESCRIPTION: CODEX ALEXANDRINUS IS A FIFTH CENTURY CHRISTAIN MANUSCRIPT WRITTEN IN GREEK. DATED BY THE INSTITUTE FOR NEW TESTAMENT TEXTUAL RESEARCH AT THE UNIVERSITY OF MUNSTER IN WESTPHALIA, GERMANY. IT IS ONE OF THE FOUR UNCIAL CODICES THAT CONTAINS BOTH OLD AND NEW TESTAMENTS. THE OLD TESTAMENT IS MOSTLY IN BYZANTINE STYLE, WHILE THE NEW TESTAMENT IS IN THE ALEXANDRIAN STYLE. IT HAS 773 VELLUM FOLIOS WITH TWO COLUMNS OF TEXT THAT CONTAIN ACCENTS AND BREATHING MARKS MADE BY THE THREE DIFFERENT SCRIBES.

THE ORIGIN OF CODEX ALEXANDRINUS IS UNCERTAIN BUT HISTORIANS BELIEVE THAT IT COULD HAVE CAME FROM ALEXANDRIA, EGYPT. IN 1621 CYRIL LUCARIS, GREEK ORTHODOX PATRIARCH, BROUGHT THE CODEX TO CONSTANTINOPLE. DUE TO LUCARS RELATIONSHIP WITH BRITAIN AND THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND IN 1627 THE BRITISH AMBASSADOR TO ISTANBUL BROUGHT THE CODEX TO LONDON. THE MANUSCRIPT WAS IN THE ROYAL LIBRARY UNTIL 1733 WHEN IT WAS RESCUED FROM A FIRE. THE CODEX ALEXANDRINUS CAN NOW BE FOUND AT THE BRITISH LIBRARY ALONG WITH OTHER MANUSCRIPTS OF ITS KIND.

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