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This is a list of notable codices. For the purposes of this compilation, as in philology , a " codex " is a manuscript book published from the late Antiquity period through the Middle Ages . (The majority of the books in both the list of manuscripts and list of illuminated manuscripts are codices.)
Only one uncial, Codex Sinaiticus has a complete text of the New Testament. Codex Alexandrinus has an almost complete text. It contains all books of the New Testament but lacks some leaves of Matthew (25), John (2), and Second Corinthians (3). Codex Vaticanus lacks the four last books, and the Epistle to the Hebrews is not complete. Codex ...
Codex Phillipps 1388 — the four Gospels, 5th/6th century; Khaburis Codex — 22 books of the New Testament, 12th century; Nestorian Evangelion — life of Jesus in the New Testament, 15th/16th century; Rabbula Gospels — the four Gospels, 586; Morgan MS 783; Morgan MS 784; Paris syr. MS 296, I o; Schøyen Ms. 2080 — 1 Corinthians-2 Corinthians
The Codex Gigas, 13th century, Bohemia. The codex (pl.: codices / ˈ k oʊ d ɪ s iː z /) [1] was the historical ancestor format of the modern book.Technically, the vast majority of modern books use the codex format of a stack of pages bound at one edge, along the side of the text.
Reims gospel book. Codicology (/ ˌ k oʊ d ɪ ˈ k ɒ l ə dʒ i /; [1] from French codicologie; from Latin codex, genitive codicis, "notebook, book" and Greek-λογία, -logia) is the study of codices or manuscript books. It is often referred to as "the archaeology of the book," [2] a term coined by François Masai.
The Crosby-Schøyen Codex, Book of Jonah and 1 Peter; the 3rd or 4th centuries; University of Mississippi; British Library MS. Oriental 7594, Deuteronomy, Jonah, and Acts; the 3rd/4th century; Michigan MS. Inv 3992, 1 Corinthians, Titus, and the Book of Psalms; 4th century; Berlin MS. Or. 408, Book of Revelation, 1 John, and Philemon; 4th century
The Bodleian Library obtained the codex in 1848, and in 1886 they bound the texts together. [9] Between Woide's transcription of the codex and the 1970s, seven leaves disappeared altogether, and there is significant damage throughout the manuscripts. [10] Among the texts in the Bruce Codex were the Untitled Text and the Books of Jeu.
The Bruce Codex (Latin: Codex Brucianus) is a codex that contains Coptic, Arabic, and Ethiopic manuscripts. It contains rare Gnostic works; the Bruce Codex is the only known surviving copy of the Books of Jeu and another work simply called Untitled Text or the Untitled Apocalypse. In 1769, James Bruce purchased the codex in Upper Egypt.