Codex Alexandrinus

The Codex Alexandrinus (London, British Library, MS Royal 1 D. V- VIII; Gregory -Aland no A or 02) dates from the 5th century; it contains the Old Testament and most of the New Testament ( missing: Mt from 1.1 to 25.6; Jn 6.50 to 8.52; 2 Cor 4.13 to 12.6 ) to 773 recorded sheets (32 to 27 cm). It also contains two apocryphal New Testament writings, namely the two letters Clemens.

History of the manuscript

The manuscript is from the 11th century detectable in the library of the Patriarch of Alexandria and was given in 1627 by the Patriarch Kyrillos Loukaris the English King Charles I. Before moving into the British Library at St Pancras, the text was next to the Codex Sinaiticus in one of the famous showcases in the manuscript department of the British Museum. A photographic reproduction of the code was 1879-1883 under the supervision of EM Thompson published.

Importance in the history of the text

Fluctuates, the value of the text. In the Gospels it is the oldest example of the Byzantine text form. In the rest of the New Testament he stands next to the Codex Sinaiticus and the Codex Vaticanus as a typical representative of the Alexandrian text. This may be due to the fact that the writer had another copy as a template for these parts as the Gospels. For the Gospels, the Codex Alexandrinus is less to evaluate, for the Book of Revelation but the Codex Alexandrinus is the most important manuscript. In the contents of the Codex to the Israelite King Solomon ascribed Psalms of Solomon for the first time witnessed.

It lacks the Pericope adulterae (John 7:53-8:11 ).