The Codex Vindobonensis Lat. 1235, designated by i or 17 (in the Beuron system), is a 6th-century

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Gospel Book. The manuscript contains 142 folios (26 cm by 19 cm). The text, written on purple dyed vellum in silver ink (as are codices '' a b e f j''), 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, ''The Early Versions of the New Testament'', Oxford University Press, 1977, p. 298. It has numerous lacunae. Surviving texts contain only: Luke 10:6-23:10; Mark 2:17-3:29; 4:4-10:1; 10:33-14:36; 15:33-40. The Latin text of the codex is a representative of the

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in ''itala'' recension. Formerly the manuscript belonged to an Augustinian Monastery at Naples. In 1717 it was brought to Vienna together with 94 other manuscripts. It was held in Vienna, in the

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, Lat. 1235). It was examined by

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. The text was edited by

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, and Jülicher. It was named Vindobonensis after Vienna (Lat. 1235), place of its former housing. Currently it is housed at the Biblioteca Nazionale (Lat. 3) at

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