page_title: Green Collection
section_title: Highlights
hierarchical_section_title: Green Collection / Highlights
caption_attribution_description: English: A John Wycliffe Bible in the Green Collection, Oklahoma City, OK. Future artifact in Museum of the Bible.
context_page_description: The Green Collection is the one of the world's largest private collection of rare biblical texts and artifacts,
  made up of more than 40,000 biblical antiquities assembled by the Green family, founders of the American retail chain Hobby Lobby.
  The collection is displayed in the $400-million Museum of the Bible which opened in 2017 in Washington, DC.
context_section_description: The capstone of the Green Collection is the Codex Climaci Rescriptus, known as Uncial 0250 (in the Gregory-Åland numbering); which is a palimpsest whose underwriting includes pages from a Greek uncial manuscript of the New Testament, as well as pages from a Christian Palestinian Aramaic uncial manuscript of the Old and New Testament. Paleographically the Greek section has been assigned to the eighth century (or seventh century), and the Christian Palestinian Aramaic section to the sixth century.
  Other items in the Green Collection include:
  The world's largest private collection of Jewish scrolls, including Torahs that survived the Spanish Inquisition, scrolls confiscated by the Nazis and recovered in concentration camps and others from across the globe
  One of the world's largest holdings of unpublished biblical and classical papyri, including texts that date back to the lost Library of Alexandria
  Rare illuminated manuscripts and previously unknown biblical texts and commentaries
  The earliest-known, near-complete translation of the Psalms in Middle English, including the Canticles and commentary predating Wycliffe's translation
  An undocumented copy of Wycliffe's New Testament in Middle English
  Some of the earliest printed texts, including a large portion of the Gutenberg Bible and the world's only complete Block Bible in private hands
  Early tracts and Bibles belonging to Martin Luther, including a little-known letter written the night before his excommunication
  An undocumented fragment of the Tyndale New Testament, published while he awaited execution
  Numerous items illustrating the contribution of Jews and Catholics to the King James translation of the Bible and other historical artifacts
caption: A John Wycliffe Bible in the Green Collection
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