The Codex Vindobonensis Lat. 1235, designated by i or 17 (in the Beuron system), is a 6th-century

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. The manuscript contains 142 folios (26 cm by 19 cm). The text, written on purple dyed vellum in silver ink (as are codices '' a b e f j''), is a version of the

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. The Gospels follow in the Western order.Bruce M. Metzger, ''The Early Versions of the New Testament'', Oxford University Press, 1977, p. 298. It has numerous lacunae. Surviving texts contain only: Luke 10:6-23:10; Mark 2:17-3:29; 4:4-10:1; 10:33-14:36; 15:33-40. The Latin text of the codex is a representative of the

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in ''itala'' recension. Formerly the manuscript belonged to an Augustinian Monastery at Naples. In 1717 it was brought to Vienna together with 94 other manuscripts. It was held in Vienna, in the Hofbibliothek, Lat. 1235). It was examined by Bianchini. The text was edited by

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, and Jülicher. It was named Vindobonensis after Vienna (Lat. 1235), place of its former housing. Currently it is housed at the Biblioteca Nazionale (Lat. 3) at

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