Bezae Codex Cantabrigiensis

Bezae Codex Cantabrigiensis
Author: Theodore Beza
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
Total Pages: 518
Release: 1996-07-18
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1725208121

An exact copy of the celebrated uncial greco-latin manuscript of the Four Gospels and Acts of the Apostles, written in the sixth century and presented to the University of Cambridge by Theodore Beza in 1581.

Bezae Codex Cantabrigiensis

Bezae Codex Cantabrigiensis
Author: Fredric H. A. Scrivener
Publisher: Classic Reprints
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2024-08-30
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9780648639770

BEZAE CODEX CANTABRIGIENSIS This book contains a complete transcript of the Greek and Latin Text of the Bezae Codex, as well as an extensive introduction in English. From the introduction: "The Greek text... we believe to bear distinct traces of an origin far more remote. Itself immediately derived from a manuscript... [of which the origin] would most likely belong to the third century at the latest. In respect, moreover, to its rare and peculiar readings, the close resemblance of Codex Bezae to the text of the Syriac versions (with which it could hardly have been compared later than the second century), and to that of the Old Latin, yet unrevised by Jerome, as employed by Cyprian and Augustine in Africa, by the translator of Irenaeus, by Hilary and Lucifer and Ambrose in the North-west, - such resemblance (far too constant to be the result of chance) persuades us to regard with the deepest interest this venerable monument of Christian learning..."