Pandect

This article covers copies of the Bible. For the collections under Roman law, see Pandekten .

With Pandekt (of griech./lat. Pandectae, "Encompassing"), a manuscript called, including a complete copy of the Bible in one volume (Full Version).

Bible pundects, not to be confused with the legal pundects of the same name , have been known since late antiquity (e.g. with Cassiodorus ), but only became more common in the Middle Ages . The oldest surviving pandect is the Codex Amiatinus . In the 9th century, a number of large-format Pandects (so-called Alcuin Bibles ) were produced in Tours, France , many of which have survived.

literature

• Bernhard Bischoff : Palaeography of Antiquity and the Occidental Middle Ages (Basics of German Studies 24). Erich Schmidt, Berlin 1979, pp. 232, 242
• Günter Bernt: Bible. B: Bible in Christian theology. I. Latin West. Biblical literary history. a) Bible manuscripts, β) textual history; Overviews . In: Lexicon of the Middle Ages (LexMA). Volume 2, Artemis & Winkler, Munich / Zurich 1983, ISBN 3-7608-8902-6 , column 41 f.