Codex Theodori Bezae cantabrigiensis
Subtitle: Evangelia et Apostolorum Acta complectens quadratis literis graeco-latinus
By: Academia auspicante venerandae has vetustatis reliquias summa qua potuit fide adumbravit expressit edidit codicis historiam praefixit notasque adjecit Thomas Kipling, S.T.P., Coll. Div. Joan. nuper socius...
Contributors: University of Cambridge
Publisher: E prelo Academico impensis Academiae
Published: 1793
Place of publication: Cantabrigiae
Language: lat; gre
Subjects: Greek Manuscripts; Facsimiles; Latin Manuscripts
Other titles: Bible. New Testament. Latin. Codex Bezae. Manuscript.
Work titles: Bible. New Testament. Greek. Codex Bezae. Manuscript
Notes: Pt. 1, 1 p. l., xxviii, [2] p., 1 l., 413 p.; pt. 2, 1 p. l., 413-854 p.

Book-plate of John Frere on fly-leaf, also stamp of Roydon hall library.

This famous ms., known as Codex Bezae or D, assigned to the sixth century, and containing the Gospels and Acts in Greek and Latin, was presented by Théodore de Bèze to the University of Cambridge in 1581. He had obtained it after the sack of the monastery of St. Irenaeus at Lyons in 1562, and used it himself to some extent in his own editions. Stephanus had already given many of its peculiar readings in his folio edition of 1550. Some hasve identified D with the "antiquissimus codex Graecus" produced in 1546 at the Council of Trent.

At a later date the ms. was collated by Patrick Young, and again by Archbishop Ussher (for Walton's Polyglot), and by Mill, Wettstein, Bentley, and John Dickinson. Finally the university entrusted the reproduction of the entire text to Thomas Kipling, afterwards dean of Peterborough.

The transcript is fairly correct, but the preface and notes possess little value. The text in quasi-facsimile, Greek and Latin, on opposite pages, followed by Notae in locos a librario allisque emendatos. Paged continuously.

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