The Codex Corbeiensis II, designated by ff² or 8 (in the Beuron system), is a 5th-century

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Gospel Book. The text, written on

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, is a version of the

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. The manuscript contains 190 parchment folio with the text of the four Gospels with lacunae (Matt 1:1-11:16; Luke 9:48; 10:20.21; 11:45-12:6.7; John 17:15-18:9; 20:22-21:8).Bruce M. Metzger, ''The Early Versions of the New Testament'', Oxford University Press, 1977, p. 296. Written in a beautiful round uncial hand. Gospels follow in the sequence: Matthew, Luke, John, Mark. The Latin text of the codex is a representative

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in ''itala'' recension. The text is akin to preserved in

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and Codex Veronensis.Bruce M. Metzger, ''The Text of the New Testament: Its Transmission, Corruption, and Restoration'', Oxford University Press 2005, p. 102. The manuscript formerly belonged to the monastic Library of Corbie Abbey, on the

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, near

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; and with the most important part of that Library was transferred to

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at Paris, about the year 1638, and was there numbered 195. It was quoted by

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, Bianchini gave a collation in Mark, Luke, and John. Full text was published by Johannes Belsheim, Augustine Calmet, Migne, and Jülicher. Currently it is housed at the National Library of France (Lat. 17225) at

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