Codex vaticanus
Description
Preserved at the Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana (Library vaticane), the Codex Vaticanus is a manuscript of Vélin in Greek writing Onciale the 4th century. It is about the oldest preserved complete manuscript of the Bible. It thus takes again the Old one and the New Testament.
History
Perhaps one of the 50 specimens of the Bible ordered by the emperor Constantin Ier with Eusèbe de Césarée? Perhaps the Bible ordered by the emperor Constant Ier into 340 with Athanase of Alexandria, then in exile in Rome? One hesitates over his exact origin, but it dates from the middle of the 4th century.
Its presence is attested as of the first catalog of the library vaticane in 1475 and the pope Nicolas V had probably integrated it as of the foundation of this one in 1448.
Jealously preserved by the authorities vaticanes and inaccessible even to the most eminent exégètes, it should be waited until 1809 so that it is exposed to Paris, at the time of Sinaïticus]] which will work the English theologists [[Westcott]] and [[Hort]] before publishing a new translation of New Testament in 1881.
These two codices remain privileged at present as regards biblical translation.
== Contenu ==
In the beginning copies complete [[Seventy]] and [[New Testament]], it misses certain texts today there:
* [[Genesis]] 1-46
* [[Psalms]] 105 to 137
* [[Books of Maccabées]] are absent (as in the letter festale 39 of Athanase)
* The missing end of New Testament was partly supplemented in XVe century: [[Epistle with the Hebrews]] (after 11,14) and it [[Apocalypse]]; epistles pastoral ([[1-2 Timothée]], [[Tite]], [[Philémon]]) were after [[Hebrew]], but they were not replaced. Perhaps after [[Apocalypse]], another writing appeared still: [[Didachè]] (quoted in the letter festale 39 of Athanase).
Written in Greek according to the type of text Alexandrine, according to the revision of Hésychius of the Greek Bible (mentioned by Jerome), with uncial letters just like the '' Sinaïticus '', this codex is the model of [[Seventy]] published in Rome in 1586 and will represent as from the XIXe century, for [[New Testament]], a reference as regards textual criticism.
== Références ==
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