Codex Ambrosianus C. 313 Inf.

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The Codex Ambrosianus C 313 is a parchment manuscript that was written in the Syrian language in the second half of the 8th or the beginning of the 9th century . It contains the text of the prophetic and poetic books of the Bible, as a translation of the Greek Hexapla version of Origen . It is the most important and extensive surviving manuscript of the Syrohexapla and, because of the high accuracy of the translation, is of importance for the reconstruction of the early Septuagint text of the Bible. It consists of 193 sheets.

The codex is in the Biblioteca Ambrosiana in Milan with the signature C 313 inf.

Edition

  • Antonio Maria Ceriani: Codex Syro-Hexaplaris Ambrosianus (= Monumenta Sacra et Profana 7). Milan 1874.

literature

  • Cesare Pasini: Per la storia della siro – eseplare ambrosiana . In: Orientalia Christiana Periodica . Volume 71, 2005, pp. 21-58

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