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

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, 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 Fourh Book of Ezra (Late First Century A.D.) With The Four Additional Chapters. A New Translation and Introduction'', in

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(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 Uncial 0320 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), is a diglot Greek-Latin uncial manuscript of the New Testament on parchment. Palaeographically it has been assigned to the 10th-century. Formerly it was designated by Dabs2. The manuscript is very la ...

). It is now part of the

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(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

Bernard de Montfaucon Dom Bernard de Montfaucon, O.S.B. (; 13 January 1655 – 21 December 1741) was a French Benedictine monk of the Congregation of Saint Maur. He was an astute scholar who founded the discipline of palaeography, as well as being an editor of works ...

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, and

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, 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

at Paris. The St. Germain Library suffered severely during the

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, 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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