The Codex Vindobonensis Lat. 502 (Vienna, Austrian National Library, Lat. 502), designated by v (in Beuron system), is a 7th-century

Latin Latin (, or , ) is a classical language belonging to the Italic branch of the Indo-European languages. Latin was originally a dialect spoken in the lower Tiber area (then known as Latium) around present-day Rome, but through the power of the ...

Gospel Book. The manuscript contains only 1 parchment folio (23.5 cm by 16.5 cm). It is known also as ''Fragmentum Vindobonense''. The text is a version of the

old Latin Old Latin, also known as Early Latin or Archaic Latin (Classical la, prīsca Latīnitās, lit=ancient Latinity), was the Latin language in the period before 75 BC, i.e. before the age of Classical Latin. It descends from a common Proto-Italic ...

. It is entitled "Pactus legis Ripuarie". The writing is much faded. It contains only: John 19:27-20:11. The Latin text of the codex is a representative of the

Western text-type In textual criticism of the New Testament, the Western text-type is one of the main text types. It is the predominant form of the New Testament text witnessed in the Old Latin and Syriac Peshitta translations from the Greek, and also in quotations ...

in ''itala'' recension. The text was transcribed and published by Henry Julian White in 1887. It was named Vindobonensis after Vienna, place of its housing.

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