Codex Alexandrinus
In 1627, Patriarch Cyril I of Constantinople presented the manuscript English ambassador Thomas Roe. Cyril is thought to have obtained the document in Alexandria, hence the name. In 1731, the codex narrowly escaped a fire. It was rescued by librarian Richard Bentley.[2]
In 1716, Bentley announced a plan to publish a revised Greek text of the New Testament based on Alexandrinus. In 1720 he published Proposals for a New Edition of the Greek Testament. The project was still incomplete when Bentley died in 1742.
The text of the codex was published in 1786 by Carl Gottfried Woide. A full sized black-and-white facsimile edition by E. Maunde Thompson was published in 1879-1883.[3] The British Library put digitized color images online in 2012.[4]
References
- ↑ The Book of Isaiah According to the Septuagint (Codex Alexandrinus) (2011).
- ↑ "Codex Alexandrinus," (2017).
- ↑ Smith, W. Andrew, A Study of the Gospels in Codex Alexandrinus: Codicology, Palaeography, and Scribal Hands, (2014), p. 2.
- ↑ "Codex Alexandrinus (Gregory-Aland 02), Bible in four volumes: Volume 4 (New Testament)," British Library.