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The manuscript is a codex (precursor to the modern book), containing the Latin text of the four Gospels written on purple parchment, with 1 column and 18 lines per page.²: 212  It has several missing sections (Matthew 1:1-11; 15:12-23; 23:18-27; John 7:44-8:12; Luke 19:26-21:29; Mark 13:9-19; 13:24-16:20).³ On the several pages which are missing, they also include the pages which contained John 7:44-8:11. Space-considerations show that the missing pages included John 7:53-8:11, the passage known as the Pericope Adulterae.

Gold ink is used for the first page of each Gospel book, and all nomina sacra (special names/titles employed in early Christian writings and copies of the New Testament books) are also written in gold ink.⁴: 189 

In Luke 8:21 it reads αυτον instead of αυτους; the reading αυτον is supported by 𝔓75, and Minuscule 705.⁵

In John 1:34 reads ὁ ἐκλεκτός together with the manuscripts 𝔓5, 𝔓106, א, e, ff2, syrc, s.

In John 14:14 the entire verse is omitted along with manuscripts X f1 565 1009 1365 ℓ 76 ℓ 253 vgmss sys, p arm geo Diatessaron.⁶

The Latin text of the codex is a representative of the Western text-type in its European/Italian recension.⁷ The codex is one of the principal witnesses to the Old Latin Text-Type I along with manuscripts Codex Corbeiensis II (VL8) and Codex Vindobonensis (VL17), although in John 1:1-10:13 it has a slightly earlier type of the Old Latin text.⁸

In biblical scholar Francis Crawford Burkitt's opinion, it represents the type of text that Jerome used as the basis of the Vulgate.⁹

The manuscript was examined by Giuseppe Bianchini in the mid-18th century. The text was edited by Bianchini, Belsheim,¹⁰ and Jülicher.¹¹

It was named Veronensis after Verona, the city where it was located.

It is currently located in the Chapter Library, at the Verona Cathedral (Biblioteca Capitolare della Cattedrale di Verona).¹²

See also

• Bible portal

• List of New Testament Latin manuscripts
• Purple parchment

Further reading

• J. Belsheim, Codex Veronensis. Quattuor Evangelia (Prague, 1904).
• G. Mercati, Un paio di appunti sopre il codice purpureo Veronese dei vangeli, RB XXXIV (1925), pp. 396–400.
• A. Jülicher, Itala. Das Neue Testament in Altlateinischer Überlieferung, Walter de Gruyter, Berlin, New York, 1976. (Marcus Evangelium)

External links

• Image from Codex Veronensis
• More information at Earlier Latin Manuscripts

References

1. Metzger, Bruce Manning (1977). The Early Versions of the New Testament. Oxford: Oxford University Press. p. 296. ISBN 978-0198261704. 978-0198261704 ↩

2. Houghton, Hugh A. G. (2016). The Latin New Testament: A Guide to its Early History, Texts, and Manuscripts. Oxford: Oxford University Press. pp. 45–46. ISBN 978-0-19-874473-3. 978-0-19-874473-3 ↩

3. Scrivener, Frederick Henry Ambrose; Edward Miller (1894). A Plain Introduction to the Criticism of the New Testament, Vol. 2 (fourth ed.). London: George Bell & Sons. p. 45. /wiki/Frederick_Henry_Ambrose_Scrivener ↩

4. Houghton, Hugh A. G. (2016). The Latin New Testament: A Guide to its Early History, Texts, and Manuscripts. Oxford: Oxford University Press. pp. 45–46. ISBN 978-0-19-874473-3. 978-0-19-874473-3 ↩

5. NA26, p. 181 ↩

6. UBS3, p. 390. ↩

7. Gregory, Caspar René (1902). Textkritik des Neuen Testaments. Vol. 2. Leipzig: J. C. Hinrichs. p. 601. /wiki/Caspar_Ren%C3%A9_Gregory ↩

8. Houghton, Hugh A. G. (2016). The Latin New Testament: A Guide to its Early History, Texts, and Manuscripts. Oxford: Oxford University Press. pp. 45–46. ISBN 978-0-19-874473-3. 978-0-19-874473-3 ↩

9. Metzger, Bruce Manning; Ehrman, Bart D. (2005). The Text of the New Testament: Its Transmission, Corruption, and Restoration (4 ed.). Oxford: Oxford University Press. p. 102. ISBN 978-019-516667-5. 978-019-516667-5 ↩

10. J. Belsheim, Codex Veronensis. Quattuor Evangelia (Prague, 1904). /wiki/Johannes_Belsheim ↩

11. Metzger, Bruce Manning (1977). The Early Versions of the New Testament. Oxford: Oxford University Press. p. 296. ISBN 978-0198261704. 978-0198261704 ↩

12. Metzger, Bruce Manning; Ehrman, Bart D. (2005). The Text of the New Testament: Its Transmission, Corruption, and Restoration (4 ed.). Oxford: Oxford University Press. p. 102. ISBN 978-019-516667-5. 978-019-516667-5 ↩