Codex Sangermanensis designated by D^abs1 or 0319 (in the numbering Gregory-Aland), α 1027 ( Soden), is a tenth-century diglot manuscript, formerly in the library of St. Germain des Prés, Paris, hence its name ''Sangermanensis'', "of Saint Germanus". Now it is preserved in the

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, Number 11105 Fonds Latin.

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, ''The Fourth Book of Ezra (Late First Century A.D.) With The Four Additional Chapters. A New Translation and Introduction'', in James H. Charlesworth (1985), ''The Old Testament Pseudoepigrapha'', Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company Inc., Volume 2, (Vol. 1), (Vol. 2). Here cited vol. 1 p. 518 It contains the

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, lacking most of 1 Timothy and parts of Romans and Hebrews. It is particularly notable as one of the two such copies which display clear evidence of having had Claromontanus as exemplar (another is Uncial 0320). It is now part of the National Library of Russia (Gr. 20) collection in

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Description

Because it is a diglot, Sangermanensis is also valuable for the study of the Latin

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s, namely the

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. It contains 177 parchment leaves of size . It is written in two columns per page, 31 lines per page. Codex Sangermanensis was composed in a coarse, large, thick hand. The Greek text of the codex is a representative of the

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(Aland's Profile 51¹ 12^1/2 11² 74^S) placed it in Category II. ; Textual variants : Romans 13:1 εξουσιαι for εξουσια : Romans 15:14 αδελφοι μου

History

The manuscript was written by Latin scribe, who was unfamiliar with Greek. The manuscript was examined and described by

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, Giuseppe Bianchini, and Johann Jakob Griesbach, who designated it by

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E. In 1805 it was collated by Matthaei. Frederic G. Kenyon
''Handbook to the textual criticism of the New Testament''
p. 102. The manuscript was held in the St. Germain des Prés at Paris. The St. Germain Library suffered severely during the French Revolution, and Peter Dubrovsky, Secretary to the Russian Embassy at Paris, acquired this manuscript together with many other manuscripts stolen from the ecclesiastical libraries.

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New Testament Manuscripts: Uncials

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Sangermanensis Greek New Testament uncials Vetus Latina New Testament manuscripts 9th-century biblical manuscripts Codex Sangermanensis

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