The Codex Ambrosianus C. 313 Inf. (also TM 117847, LDAB 117847) is a Syro-Hexaplar manuscript in parchment form the late eight or early ninth-century. This manuscript contains books from Psalms to Daniel, comprising half of the

Old Testament The Old Testament (OT) is the first division of the Christian biblical canon, which is based primarily upon the 24 books of the Hebrew Bible, or Tanakh, a collection of ancient religious Hebrew and occasionally Aramaic writings by the Isr ...

Andreas Masius Andreas Masius (or Maes) (30 November 1514 – 7 April 1573) was a Catholic priest, humanist and one of the first European syriacists. About Masius was born in Lennik, Flemish Brabant. Following his education, and after a short period of traini ...

reported that the first part of the manuscript, which contained the Pentateuch and the Historical Books, was present at first, but it was lost. The preserved portion contains the books in this order: Pss, Job, Prov, Qoh, Cant, Wis, Sir, MinP, Jer, Bar, Lam, Ep Jer, Dan (with Greek additions: Sus, Bel), Ezek and Isa. This manuscript has been important for the reconstruction of the fifth column of the

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's Hexapla. The manuscript has no colophon and is written in Estrangela script. According to

Frank E. Shaw Frank Edward Shaw is a retired professor and the originator of the theory that there was no single original form of writing of the name of God in the Greek Bible, instead of Ιαω, transliterations in square Hebrew characters, in paleo-Hebrew ch ...

, the name of God Iαω consistently renders the Syriac yod-aleph-waw. A potholithographic edition was published in 1874 by

Antonio Maria Ceriani Antonio Maria Ceriani (May 2, 1828 – March 2, 1907) was an Italian prelate, Syriacist, and scholar. Ceriani was born at Uboldo, in Lombardy. He was ordained a priest for his home diocese of Milan in 1852 and the same year was appointed keeper ...

in ''Codex Syro-Hexaparis Ambrosianus potholithographice editus'', and currently is at the

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