The Codex Sangallensis 907, designated S, is an 8th-century

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manuscript of the

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. The text, written on

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, is a version of the Latin

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Bible. It contains the text of the

Catholic epistles The catholic epistles (also called the general epistlesEncarta-encyclopedie Winkler Prins (1993–2002) s.v. "katholieke brieven". Microsoft Corporation/Het Spectrum.) are seven epistles of the New Testament. Listed in order of their appearance in ...

Book of Revelation The Book of Revelation is the final book of the New Testament (and consequently the final book of the Christian Bible). Its title is derived from the first word of the Koine Greek text: , meaning "unveiling" or "revelation". The Book of R ...

, and non-biblical material (an ''Etymological dictionary'', ''Four ages''). The manuscript did not survived in a complete condition and some parts of it has been lost. The codex contains the

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Description

Codex Sangallensis 907 contains the Catholic epistles on the pages 237–297, the Apocalypse 1:1-7:2 on the pages 303–318. It contains also Old Testament books -

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and

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. on 160 parchment leaves (25 by 17.5 cm). On folios 19-20, it has additional material: the '' Four Ages of the World''. According to this material, the

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conquered Italy in the year 5772 (from the creation of the world). On folios 21-217 it has ''Etymological dictionary''.Cod. Sang. 907
at the e-codices The text is written 24 lines in one column per page, in

semi-uncial Uncial is a majuscule Glaister, Geoffrey Ashall. (1996) ''Encyclopedia of the Book''. 2nd edn. New Castle, DE, and London: Oak Knoll Press & The British Library, p. 494. script (written entirely in capital letters) commonly used from the 4th to ...

letters. The ink is black, with the initial letters being uncials and in colour. The initial letters are written very carefully and decorated by zoomorphic motives like fish. The

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are written in an abbreviated way and in Greek letters. The text of the codex is a mixture of the

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. It contains the spurious text of the

after 1 John 5:8 (in the same location as in the

Codex Cavensis The La Cava Bible or ''Codex Cavensis'' (Cava de' Tirreni, Biblioteca statale del Monumento Nazionale Badia di Cava, Ms. memb. I) is a 9th-century Latin illuminated Bible, which was produced in Spain, probably in the Kingdom of Asturias during the ...

).Nestle-Aland, ''Novum Testamentum Latine'',

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, Stuttgart 2008, p. 623. It reads ''filio'' (''for son'') in 1 John 5:10, where the majority of manuscripts have ''Deo'' (''for God'').Nestle-Aland, ''Novum Testamentum Latine'',

, Stuttgart 2008, p. 624. In 5:17 it reads ''iniquitas'' (''wrongdoing'') for ''iniustitia'' (''unrighteousness'').

History

The manuscript was written by the monk

Winithar Winithar was a medieval scribe, the earliest known scribe from the scriptorium of the Abbey of Saint Gall in present-day Switzerland. The birth and death dates of Winithar are not known. He is mentioned for the first time in written sources in 7 ...

and examined and described by Gustav Scherrer and Samuel Berger. The manuscript was collated by

Henry Julian White Henry Julian White (27 August 1859 – 16 July 1934) was an English biblical scholar. White was born in Islington, north London, the second son of Henry John White. He was educated at Christ Church, Oxford, matriculating on 11 October 1878, grad ...

John Wordsworth John Wordsworth (1843–1911) was an English Anglican bishop and classical scholar. He was Oriel Professor of the Interpretation of Holy Scripture at the University of Oxford from 1883 to 1885, and Bishop of Salisbury from 1885 to 1911. Life H ...

Wordsworth designated the manuscript by

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S₂. It was digitised and it is available on the site of the ''Virtual Manuscript Library of Switzerland''. Currently it is housed at the

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(907) in

St. Gallen , neighboring_municipalities = Eggersriet, Gaiserwald, Gossau, Herisau (AR), Mörschwil, Speicher (AR), Stein (AR), Teufen (AR), Untereggen, Wittenbach , twintowns = Liberec (Czech Republic) , website ...

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Cod. Sang. 907
at the e-codices {{DEFAULTSORT:Sangallensis 907 Vulgate manuscripts 8th-century biblical manuscripts Manuscripts of the Abbey library of Saint Gall

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