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3 unusual facts about Codex Amiatinus


Codex Amiatinus

In 1888 Giovanni Battista de Rossi established that the Codex was related to the Bibles mentioned by Bede.

The dedication page had been altered and the librarian Angelo Maria Bandini suggested that the author was Servandus, a follower of St. Benedict, and was produced at Monte Cassino around the 540s.

Monkwearmouth–Jarrow Abbey

The only survivor of the three bibles is the Codex Amiatinus, now in Florence, the oldest complete surviving Bible in the world, which was being carried to Rome by Ceolfrith himself when he died in 716.


Ceolfrith

The Codex Amiatinus is the oldest manuscript with a complete text of the Vulgate.


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