The Codex Veronensis, designated by

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b or 4 (in the Beuron system), is a 5th century

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Gospel Book A Gospel Book, Evangelion, or Book of the Gospels (Greek: , ''Evangélion'') is a codex or bound volume containing one or more of the four Gospels of the Christian New Testament – normally all four – centering on the life of Jesus of Nazar ...

. The text, written on purple dyed

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in silver and occasionally gold ink, is a version of the

old Latin Old Latin, also known as Early Latin or Archaic Latin (Classical la, prīsca Latīnitās, lit=ancient Latinity), was the Latin language in the period before 75 BC, i.e. before the age of Classical Latin. It descends from a common Proto-Italic ...

. The Gospels follow in the Western order.

Bruce M. Metzger Bruce Manning Metzger (February 9, 1914 – February 13, 2007) was an American biblical scholar, Bible translator and textual critic who was a longtime professor at Princeton Theological Seminary and Bible editor who served on the board of the A ...

, ''The Early Versions of the New Testament'',

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, 1977, p. 296.

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The manuscript contains the Latin text of the four

Gospel Gospel originally meant the Christian message ("the gospel"), but in the 2nd century it came to be used also for the books in which the message was set out. In this sense a gospel can be defined as a loose-knit, episodic narrative of the words an ...

s. It has several lacunae (Matthew 1:1-11; 15:12-23; 23:18-27; John 7:44-8:12; Luke 19:26-21:29; Mark 13:9-19; 13:24-16:20). In this codex, several pages are missing, including, notably, the pages which contained John 7:44-8:11. Space-considerations show that the missing pages included John 7:53-8:11, the passage known as the Pericope Adulterae. In Luke 8:21 it reads αυτον instead of αυτους; the reading αυτον is supported by

Papyrus 75 Papyrus 75 (formerly Papyrus Bodmer XIV– XV, now Hanna Papyrus 1), designated by the siglum (in the Gregory-Aland numbering of New Testament manuscripts), is an early Greek New Testament manuscript written on papyrus. It contains text from t ...

, and

Minuscule 705 Minuscule 705 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), ε360 ( von Soden),Hermann von Soden, ''Die Schriften des neuen Testaments, in ihrer ältesten erreichbaren Textgestalt / hergestellt auf Grund ihrer Textgeschichte'' (Berlin 1902), vol. 1, p. 178. ...

. In John 1:34 reads ὁ ἐκλεκτός together with the manuscripts 𝔓⁵, 𝔓¹⁰⁶, א, e, ff², syr^{c, s}. In John 14:14 the entire verse is omitted along with manuscripts X ''f''¹ 565 1009 1365 ℓ ''76'' ℓ ''253'' vg^mss syr^{s, pal} arm geo Diatessaron. The Latin text of the codex is a representative of the

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in European recension. In

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's opinion (the Divinity scholar who worked in the early 20th century), it represents the type of text that

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used as the basis of the

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. The manuscript was examined by

Giuseppe Bianchini Giuseppe Bianchini (1704 in Verona – 1764 in Rome) was an Italian Oratorian, biblical, historical, and liturgical scholar. Clement XII and Benedict XIV, who highly appreciated his learning, entrusted him with several scientific labors. Bianch ...

in the mid-18th century. The text was edited by Bianchini, Belsheim, J. Belsheim
''Codex Veronensis. Quattuor Evangelia''
(Prague, 1904). and Jülicher. It was named Veronensis after Verona, where it was located.

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