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Part of the 5th-century Quedlinburg Itala fragment, the oldest surviving Old Testament Vetus Latina manuscript. Vetus Latina manuscripts are handwritten copies of the earliest Latin translations of the Bible (including the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament, the Deuterocanonical books, and the New Testament), known as the "Vetus Latina" or "Old Latin".
Some of the oldest surviving Vetus Latina versions of the Old Testament (or Hebrew Bible, or Tanakh) include the Quedlinburg Itala fragment, a 5th-century manuscript containing parts of 1 Samuel, and the Codex Complutensis I, a 10th-century manuscript containing Old Latin readings of the Book of Ruth, Book of Esther, [2] Book of Tobit, [3] Book of Judith, and 1-2 Maccabees.
The following is a list of the world's oldest surviving physical documents. Each entry is the most ancient of each language or civilization. For example, the Narmer Palette may be the most ancient from Egypt, but there are many other surviving written documents from Egypt later than the Narmer Palette but still more ancient than the Missal of Silos.
Vulgate manuscripts differ from Vetus Latina manuscripts, which are handwritten copies of the earliest Latin-language Bible translations known as the "Vetus Latina" or "Old Latin", originating from multiple translators before Jerome's late-4th-century Vulgate.
The Duenos Inscription on a kernos vase. The Duenos inscription is one of the earliest known Old Latin texts, variously dated from the 7th to the 5th century BC. [1] It is inscribed on the sides of a kernos, in this case a trio of small globular vases adjoined by three clay struts.
An extreme case is the Vedic Sanskrit of the Rigveda: the earliest parts of this text date to c. 1500 BC, [1] while the oldest known manuscripts date to c. 1040 AD. [2] Similarly the oldest Avestan texts, the Gathas, are believed to have been composed before 1000 BC, but the oldest Avestan manuscripts date from the 13th century AD. [3]
The text of Codex Vercellensis is related to the text of Codex Corbeiensis II (ff 2), another Old Latin copy (in which Mark 16:9-20 is included). According to a respectable tradition, this codex was written under the direction of bishop Eusebius of Vercelli , which would date it to the late fourth century.
3 In Latin. 4 In Syriac. 5 In Ge'ez. 6 See also. Toggle the table of contents. ... The following articles contain lists of New Testament manuscripts: In Coptic