Codex Campianus

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New Testament manuscripts
papyriuncialsminuscules
Uncial 021
Name Cyprius
Sign Me
Text Gospels
Date 9th century
Script Greek
Now at National Library of France, Gr. 48
Size 22 x 16,3 cm
Type Byzantine text-type
Category V

Codex Campianus (Gregory-Aland no. Me or 021) is a Greek uncial manuscript of the Gospels, dated paleographically to the 9th century. The codex contains 257 leaves (22 cm by 16.3 cm) and is written in two columns per page, 24 lines per column. The codex contains the complete text of the Gospels. The Eusebian Canons are present.

Called Campianus after François de Camps, who gave it to Louis XIV in 1707, the codex is now located in National Library of France (Gr. 48) in Paris.

The Greek text of this codex is a representative of the Byzantine text-type, with a number of caesarean readings. Aland placed it in Category V.

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  • Kurt Aland, and Barbara Aland, The Text of the New Testament: An Introduction to the Critical Editions and to the Theory and Practice of Modern Text Criticism, 1995, Grand Rapids, Michigan.
  • Bruce M. Metzger, The Text of the New Testament: Its Transmission, Corruption and Restoration, Oxford University Press, 1968.

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