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2 unusual facts about Codex


Cologne Mani-Codex

The Greek text bears traces that shows it has been translated from an Eastern Aramaic or Old Syriac original.

Temperence Hill

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Abdias of Babylon

The text of the compiler who may then be called the Pseudo-Abdias may be found in Constantin von Tischendorf, and in the Codex Apocryphus Novi Testimenti of Johann Albert Fabricius.

Allan Quatermain

In "The Judex Codex" (published in The Shadow of Judex, 2013), the writer Dennis E. Power says that Quatermain had a daughter by Ayesha; this reconciles Quatermain's family tree with the Allan Quatermain comic book series created by Alfredo Castelli.

Boxer Codex

The codex was among what remained in his collection when his estate, Holland House in London, suffered a direct hit during an air raid in 1942.

Code of Euric

The Codex Euricianus or Code of Euric was a collection of laws governing the Visigoths compiled at the order of Euric, King of Spain, sometime before 480, probably at Toulouse (possible at Arles); it is one of the earliest examples of early Germanic law.

Codex Augiensis

W. H. P. Hatch, On the Relationship of Codex Augiensis and Codex Boernerianus of the Pauline Epistles, Harvard Studies in Classical Philology, Vol.

Codex Basilensis A. N. III. 12

The codex was available to Erasmus for his translation of the New Testament in Basel, but he never used it.

Codex Borgia

The Codex Borgia is presently housed in the Apostolic Library, the Vatican.

Codex Carolinus

Franz Anton Knittel (1721–1792) recognized two lower Greek texts of the New Testament in this palimpsest codex, and designated them by A and B, he recognized also the Gothic-Latin text (known later as Codex Carolinus).

Codex Eyckensis

The Codex is now on display in the St. Catherine church in Maaseik, Belgium.

Codex Laud

The Codex Laud, or Laudianus, (catalogued as MS. Laud Misc. 678, Bodleian Library in Oxford) is an important sixteenth century manuscript associated with William Laud, an English archbishop who was the former owner of this ancient Mexican codex.

Codex Laudianus

Codex Laudianus, designated by Ea or 08 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), α 1001 (von Soden), called Laudianus after the former owner, Archbishop William Laud.

Codex Legionensis

The Codex Legionensis, designated l or 67 (in the Beuron system), is a 7th century Latin script of the Old and New Testament.

Codex Parisinus Graecus 456

Codex Parisinus Graecus 456, designated by siglum H, manuscript of Origen's Philocalia and Contra Celsum.

Codex Sangermanensis

Codex Sangermanensis designated by Dabs1 or 0319 (in the numbering Gregory-Aland), α 1027 (Soden), is a tenth-century diglot manuscript, formerly in the library of St. Germain des Prés, Paris, hence its name Sangermanensis, "of Saint Germanus".

Codex Sangermanensis I

In 1865, Johann Gildemeister (1812-1890), later Professor of Oriental Languages at the University of Bonn, personally discovered that dormibunt was the last word of one leaf of the Codex Sangermanensis and primus (with a small P) the beginning word on the next leaf - but that one leaf which had once been between them had been cut out of the Codex.

Codex Tchacos

National Geographic, which restored and conserved of the codex, has also created a two-hour television documentary, The Gospel of Judas, which aired worldwide on the National Geographic Channel on April 9, 2006.

Codex Zacynthius

William Hatch in 1937, on the basis of palaeographical data, suggested that the codex should be dated to the 6th century.

Engarandus Juvenis

Engarandus Juvenis, "Enguerrand the Younger" (fl. 1480s-90s) is a composer, presumed to be of French origin, whose three known works are all preserved in a single codex in the Cistercian monastery of Staffarda, Italy.

Eusebius of Vercelli

There is preserved in the cathedral at Vercelli the Codex Vercellensis, the earliest manuscript of the old Latin Gospels ("Codex a"), which was believed to have been written by Eusebius, thought now scholars tend to doubt it.

Felec of Cornwall

The church at Phillack near Hayle is dedicated to Saint Felec (as he appears in a 10th-century Vatican codex).

Fifty Bibles of Constantine

Constantin von Tischendorf, discoverer of Codex Sinaiticus, believed that Sinaiticus and Vaticanus were among these fifty Bibles prepared by Eusebius in Caesarea.

Filarete

The fact that the Codex Magliabechiano is dedicated to Piero de' Medici and was conserved in Florence suggests that Filarete was well regarded in his native Florence despite his loyalty to Milan.

Gertrude Psalter

In the 12th century, the codex was in the possession of the Andechs-Merania family, and was given to Elizabeth of Hungary either by her mother, Gertrude of Merania, or by her aunt, Saint Hedwig of Andechs.

Giuseppe Cozza-Luzi

He edited the text of Codex Marchalianus (Prophetarum codex Graecus Vaticanus 2125 (Romae, 1890)).

Together with the well-known scriptural scholar Carlo Vercellone, he supervised the printing of the Greek text of the Codex Vaticanus, in five volumes (Rome, 1868–81); he also edited other scriptural manuscripts, e.g. the Greek codex of Daniel in the Chigi Library at Rome.

Gulating

A fairly complete manuscript of the legislation from around 1250 has survived, Codex Ranzovianus at the University of Copenhagen; however, the text represents all the laws adopted and amended by the farmers at the thing over several centuries.

Hedwig Codex

The Hedwig Codex is a medieval illuminated manuscript of the Life of Hedwig of Silesia, produced in the court workshop of Ludwig I of Liegnitz and Brieg in 1353.

Jacques Brunel

The most important pieces, a number of ricercars from the so-called Bourdeney Codex, were attributed to Brunel by Anthony Newcomb in 1987.

James E. Ferrell

With Elizabeth J. Ferrell he has created an important archive of medieval manuscripts including the Vogüé codex of Guillaume de Machaut, currently on loan to Parker Library of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge University.

Jonatán Dobroslav Čipka

Together with August Horislav Škultéty and Štefan Marko Daxner he inscribed number of collected folk fairytales into the so-called Codex Tisovecký, that has belonged to the fundamental streams, sources in publishing of folk fairytales.

Källunge church

The church gives its name to the Källunge codex (Latin Codex Kellungensis) a 1622 collection of choral music by Philipp Dulichius, Melchior Vulpius, Gregor Aichinger, Nicolaus Zangius, Hieronymus Praetorius, Hans Hassler, Jacobus Gallus, Johann Walter, Dominique Phinot, Orlando di Lasso, and Johann Bahr among others.

Lectionary 175

Currently the codex is located in the New York Public Library, (Rare Books and Manuscripts Divisions, Ms. 103) at New York.

Lectionary 2005

The codex was divided, and now two of its folios are located at the Byzantine Museum (Frg. 42) in Athens, 1 folio is located in the Bible Museum (MS. 20) in Münster.

Leningrad Codex

As an original work by Tiberian masoretes, the Leningrad Codex was older by several centuries than the other Hebrew manuscripts which had been used for all previous editions of printed Hebrew bibles until Biblia Hebraica.

In 1935, the Leningrad Codex was lent to the Old Testament Seminar of the University of Leipzig for two years while Paul E. Kahle supervised its transcription for the Hebrew text of the third edition of Biblia Hebraica (BHK), published in Stuttgart, 1937.

Marian litany

The earliest known genuine text of a Marian litany is in a 12th-century codex in the Mainz Library, with the title Letania de domina nostra Dei genitrice virgine Maria: oratio valde bona: cottidie pro quacumque tribulatione recitanda est.

Maya moon goddess

Her importance is reflected by the eclipse tables of the Dresden Codex and by the Lunar Series of the Long Count.

Minuscule 44

The codex was brought from Athos to England by César de Missy (1703-1775), French chaplain of George III, King of England, who spent his life in collecting materials for an edition of the New Testament.

Minuscule 45

The codex was brought from the Athos to England by César de Missy (1703-1775), French chaplain of George III, King of England, who spent his life in collecting materials for an edition of the New Testament.

Nowell Codex

This second manuscript is popularly known as the Nowell codex, after Laurence Nowell, whose name is inscribed on its first page; he was apparently its owner in the mid-16th century.

Papyrus 21

In Matthew 12:25 it has textual variant ιδων δε (instead of ειδως δε) in agreement with Codex Bezae, corrector b of the Codex Sinaiticus, 892*, the Latin text of Codex Bezae (itd), k, c, s, Papyrus 49

The text of the codex was published by William Hatch and Bradford Welles in 1958 (editio princeps).

Rossano Gospels

The codex was discovered in 1879 in the Italian city of Rossano by Oskar von Gebhardt and Adolf Harnack, in the sacristy of Rossano Cathedral.

Splendor Solis

As for the history of the codex itself, Baron Böttger, the famous pharmacist and great adept of alchemy who invented the porcelain manufacturing method, was apparently one of its owners in the 17th century.

Tatian

After the Codex Fuldensis, it would appear that members of the Western family lead an underground existence, popping into view over the centuries in an Old High German translation (c. 830), a Dutch (c. 1280), a Venetian manuscript of the 13th century, and a Middle English manuscript from 1400 that was once owned by Samuel Pepys.

Ultima IV: Quest of the Avatar

After proving his or her understanding in each of the virtues, locating several artifacts and finally descending into the dungeon called the Stygian Abyss to gain access to the Codex of Ultimate Wisdom, the protagonist becomes an Avatar.

Vaassen

The town is mentioned for the first time in a certificate from the Codex Laureshamnensis of the monastery of Lorschin the year 891 or 892, when someone called "Brunhilde" gave a farmhouse and the church to Lorsch.


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