The Codex Complutensis I, designated by C, is a 10th-century codex of the Christian Bible. It is written on

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text mainly following the Vulgate. Parts of the Old Testament present an Old Latin version.

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, ''The Early Versions of the New Testament'', Oxford University Press, 1977, p. 338.

Description

The Latin text of the Gospels is a representative of the Spanish type of Vulgate, but with peculiar readings in the Epistles and Acts. In some portions of the Old Testament it represents the Old Latin version (

Book of Ruth The Book of Ruth ( he, מגילת רות, ''Megilath Ruth'', "the Scroll of Ruth", one of the Five Megillot) is included in the third division, or the Writings (Ketuvim), of the Hebrew Bible. In most Christian canons it is treated as one of th ...

Book of Esther The Book of Esther ( he, מְגִלַּת אֶסְתֵּר, Megillat Esther), also known in Hebrew as "the Scroll" ("the Megillah"), is a book in the third section (, "Writings") of the Jewish '' Tanakh'' (the Hebrew Bible). It is one of the ...

Book of Tobit The Book of Tobit () ''Tōbith'' or ''Tōbit'' ( and spellings are also attested) itself from he, טובי ''Tovi'' "my good"; Book of Tobias in the Vulgate from the Greek ''Tōbias'', itself from the Hebrew ''Tovyah'' "Yah is good", also k ...

Book of Judith The Book of Judith is a deuterocanonical book, included in the Septuagint and the Catholic and Eastern Orthodox Christian Old Testament of the Bible, but excluded from the Hebrew canon and assigned by Protestants to the apocrypha. It tel ...

, 1-2 Maccabees). It contains apocryphal 4 Book of Esdra. It contains an Epistle to the Laodiceans, which follows after Epistle to the Hebrews, not Colossians as in other Spanish Bibles. It contains the much debated texts of the Pericope Adultera (John 7:53-8:11) and

Comma Johanneum The Johannine Comma ( la, Comma Johanneum) is an interpolated phrase (comma) in verses of the First Epistle of John. The text (with the comma in italics and enclosed by square brackets) in the King James Bible reads: It became a touchpoint f ...

(1 John 5:7).

History

According to the colophon the manuscript was written in 927. The manuscript was purchased by Cardinal Ximenes and used by him in editing the Complutensian Polyglot Bible. It was examined by Samuel Berger and Westcott. During the

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(1936–1939) it was almost totally destroyed. The little that still remains is in the Library of the Facultad de Filosofía y Letras (Centr. 31) in

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. In 2010, a complete third-generation copy on

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was discovered in a library in Collegeville, Minnesota.Lost medieval bibles found in library’s basement
/ref> The Pontifical Abbey of St Jerome-in-the-City in Rome housed a facsimile of the entire manuscript. Currently the manuscript is housed in the library of the Faculdad de Filosofia y Letras in

(Bibl. Univ. Cent. 31).

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