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A very remarkable manuscript of the Gospels and Acts the Cambridge manuscript, or Codex Bezae belongs to the sixth century.... I pass by a number of small but valuable fragments of the fifth and sixth centuries. Out of all this vast mass of extant manuscripts, only twenty-seven contain the New Testament entire.
The connexion subsisting between this Latin, version, the Curetonian Syriac and Codex Bezae, proves that the text of these documents is considerably older than the vellum on which they are written. Such is Dr.
The third drawback to the unqualified acceptance of the text of Westcott and Hort is their continuous and studied disregard of Western authorities; and this, notwithstanding that among these authorities are included the singular and not unfrequently suggestive Codex Bezae of which Dr.
Although there is no space here to describe the many early books the library contains, it is impossible to omit to mention that among the notable manuscripts exhibited in the galleries is the famous Codex Bezae presented to the University by Theodore Beza, who rescued it, in 1562, when the monastery at Lyons, in which it was preserved, was being destroyed.
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