6,138
edits
Changes
m
[[Image:Codex alexandrinus.jpg|thumb|right|220px|Gospel of Luke in Codex Alexandrinus]]
minor formatting
<!---[[Image:Codex alexandrinus.jpg|thumb|right|220px|Gospel of Luke in Codex Alexandrinus]]---> The '''Codex Alexandrinus''' (London, British Library, MS Royal 1. D. V-VIII; Gregory-Aland no. '''A''' or '''02''', Soden δ 4) is a 5th century manuscript of the Greek Bible, containing the majority of the [[Septuagint]] and the [[New Testament]].<ref>Kurt Aland, and Barbara Aland, ''The Text of the New Testament: An Introduction to the Critical Editions and to the Theory and Practice of Modern Textual Criticism'', transl. Erroll F. Rhodes, William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, Grand Rapids, Michigan, 1995, p. 107, 109.</ref>
Along with the [[Codex Sinaiticus]] and the [[Codex Vaticanus]], it is one of the earliest and most complete manuscripts of the Bible. It derives its name from Alexandria where it resided for a number of years before being given to the British in the 17th century.
The codex was brought to [[Constantinople]] in 1621 by Cyril Lucar (first a patriarch of Alexandria, then later a patriarch of Constantinople) who then presented it to Charles I of England in 1627, through the hands of Thomas Roe, the English ambassador at the court of the Sultan. It became a part of the Royal Library, British Museum and now the British Library. It was saved from the fire at Ashburnam House (the Cotton library) on [[October 23]], 1731, by the librarian, Dr Bentley.
==Textual features==
Textual critics have had a challenging task in classifying the Codex, with the exact relationship to other known texts and families still disputed. The [[gospel]]s are mainly of the Byzantine text-type, but there are a number of Alexandrian features. Alexandrinus follows Alexandrian readings through the rest of the New Testament, however, the text goes from closely resembling Codex Sinaiticus in the [[Pauline epistles]], to more closely resembling the text of a number of papyri (<!---<math>\mathfrak{P}</math><sup>74</sup> for Acts, <math>\mathfrak{P}</math><sup>47</sup>---> for the Apocalypse). The gospels are cited as a "consistently cited witness of the third order" in the critical apparatus of the Novum Testamentum Graece, while the rest of the New Testament is of the "first order."
== References ==
*[[W:Codex Alexandrinus|'''Wikipedia:''' ''Codex Alexandrinus'']]
== External links == '''Non-Orthodox links'''* [http://www.csntm.org/Manuscripts/GA%2002/ Center for the Study of NT Manuscripts. : ''Codex Alexandrinus''] * [http://www.biblefacts.org/church/pdf/Codex%20Alexandrinus.pdf Facsimile of ''Codex Alexandrinus''] * [http://www.bl.uk/onlinegallery/sacredtexts/codexalex.html '''Biritsh Library''' website: ''Codex Alexandrinus: '' information, zoomable image] British Library website * [http://www.skypoint.com/~waltzmn/ManuscriptsUncials.html#uA ''Codex Alexandrinus '' at the Encyclopedia of New Testament Textual Criticism]
[[Category: Texts]]