Codex
Alexandrinus. This Codex is so named because it is supposed to
have come from Alexandria around 450 A.D. It contains the Old Testament, the Apocrypha,
and the New Testament. Parts of Genesis, 1 Kings, Psalms, Matthew, John, 2
Corinthians are missing. It is on very thin vellum pages 10 ¼ by 12 3/4 inches,
having 639 in the Old Testament and 134 in the New. In 1624 it was given to Sir
Thomas Roe, English ambassador to Turkey to be presented to King James I, but
it arrived too late to be used in making the King James Version and after the
death of James. It was presented to Charles I in 1627 and placed in the Royal
Library. Then in 1757 George II presented the Royal Library to the British
nation and thus this manuscript was placed in the National Library of the British
Museum. It was the first Uncial to be used by Biblical scholars.
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