D - Codex Bezae
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Later 5th century or early 6th
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Bilingual manuscript of the Gospels and Acts
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Written in Greek on the left page and in Latin on the right
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Oldest known manuscript written in two languages
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Text is Western
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Borrowed from the Monastery of St. Irenaeus in Lyons by the Bishop of Clermont
to take to the Council of Trent in 1546
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Returned to the monastery and hidden when Lyons was destroyed by the Huguenots
in 1562
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Unknown how it came to Theodore de Beze, the Geneva scholar and reformer,
who presented it to the University of Cambridge in 1581
Derived from Gospel Parallels, Ed. Burton H. Throckmorton,
Jr., 1979, Thomas Nelson Publishers, Nashville
LivingWeb Library: Scriptures: 220.4
- Original Texts, Early Versions & Translations
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