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2 unusual facts about Vaticanus


Vaticanus

Vatican Hill (in Latin, Vaticanus Mons), a location of Holy See

Codex Ríos or Codex Vaticanus A, an Italian translation of a Spanish colonial-era manuscript, Codex Telleriano-Remensis


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.

Kurt Aland, Bruce M. Metzger, Bart D. Ehrman doubt that Sinaiticus and Vaticanus were copied by Eusebius on the Constantine order.

Caspar René Gregory believed that Vaticanus and Sinaiticus were written in Caesarea, and they could belong to the Eusebian fifty.

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.

Novellae Constitutiones

1558 Henry Scrimgeour creates an edition of the Novels based on the Palatino-Vaticanus copy of the Venetian manuscript.


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