Codex Laudianus

The manuscript is a diglot, with Greek and Latin in parallel columns on the same page, with the Latin in the left-hand column. The codex contains 227 parchment leaves, sized {{convert|27|xx|22|cm|in|1|abbr=on}}, with almost the complete text of the Book of Acts (lacuna in 26:29-28:26). It is the earliest known manuscript to contain Acts 8:37.

The text is written in two columns per page, 24 and more lines per page.{{Cite book

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| isbn = 978-0-8028-4098-1}} It is arranged in very short lines of only one to three words each.{{Cite book |last1=Metzger |first1=Bruce M. |authorlink1=Bruce M. Metzger |last2=Ehrman |first2=Bart D. |authorlink2=Bart D. Ehrman |title=The Text of the New Testament: Its Transmission, Corruption and Restoration | edition = 4 |year=2005 |publisher=Oxford University Press |location=New York – Oxford |url=https://archive.org/details/textnewtestament00metz|url-access=limited |isbn=978-0-19-516122-9 |page= [https://archive.org/details/textnewtestament00metz/page/n92 74]}} The text is written colonmetrically.

The Greek text of this codex exhibits a mixture of text-types, usually the Byzantine, but there are many Western and some Alexandrian readings. According to Kurt Aland it agrees with the Byzantine text-type 36 times, and 21 times with the Byzantine when it has the same reading as the Alexandrian text. It agrees 22 times with the Alexandrian text against the Byzantine. It has 22 independent or distinctive readings (Sonderlesarten). Aland placed it in Category II.

It contains Acts 8:37, as do the manuscripts 323, 453, 945, 1739, 1891, 2818, and several others. Most other Greek manuscripts do not contain Acts 8:37Nestle-Aland, Novum Testamentum Graece, 26th edition, p. 345.{{Cite book | author = Bruce M. Metzger | author-link = Bruce M. Metzger | title = A Textual Commentary on the Greek New Testament | publisher = Deutsche Bibelgesellschaft | location = Stuttgart | year = 2001 | page = 316}}

In Acts 12:25, the Latin text of the codex reads from Jerusalem to Antioch, along with 429, 945, 1739, p, syr^p, cop^sa geo; The Majority Text reads εις Ιερουσαλημ (to Jerusalem);UBS3, p. 464.

In Acts 16:10, it reads θεος along with P⁷⁴, Sinaiticus, Alexandrinus, Vaticanus, Ephraemi, 044, 33, 81, 181, 326, 630, 945, 1739, ar, e, l, vg, cop^bo, geo; other manuscripts read κυριος - D, P, 049, 056, 0142, 88, 104, 330, 436, 451, 614, 629, 1241, 1505, 1877, 2127, 2412, 2492, 2495, Byz, c, d, gig, syr^p,h, cop^sa.NA26, p. 480

In Acts 18:26, it reads την οδον του κυριου along with manuscripts 1505, 2495, and lectionary 598.UBS3, p. 491.

In Acts 20:28, it reads του κυριου (of the Lord) along with the manuscripts: Papyrus 74, C*, D, Ψ, 33, 36, 453, 945, 1739, and 1891.NA26, p. 384.For other variants of this verse see: Textual variants in the Acts of the Apostles.

It was probably written in Sardinia, during the Byzantine occupation, and therefore after 534 (terminus a quo). It was written before 716 (terminus ad quem), as it was used by Beda Venerabilis in his Expositio Actuum Apostolorum Retractata.

"It was brought to England probably by Theodore of Tarsus, Archbishop of Canterbury, in 668, or by Ceolfrid, Abbot of Wearmouth and Jarrow, in the early part of the eighth century. It was probably deposited in one of the great monasteries in the north of England."Frederic Kenyon, [http://www.katapi.org.uk/BibleMSS/master.html?http://www.katapi.org.uk/BibleMSS/Contents.htm "Chapter VII: The Manuscripts of the New Testament"], Our Bible and the ancient manuscripts (1939). It probably came to the continent with English missionaries in the 8th century and came into the possession of Hornbach Abbey in the Rhineland.https://hab.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/en/blog/blog-post-28/ The travels of the Laudian Acts, accessed 2020-11-17.Lapidge (1996), Anglo-Latin Literature, Vol.1, p. 411.

In the Thirty Years' War, it came into the possession of William Laud, who donated the manuscript to the Bodleian Library in Oxford in 1636, where it is still located (shelfmark: MS. Laud Gr. 35).

Thomas Hearne published a transcription of its text in 1715, but not a very good one. This was followed by a transcription done by Hansell in 1864, and then by Constantin von Tischendorf in 1870.C. R. Gregory, [https://archive.org/stream/canonandtextnew00greguoft#page/n379/mode/2up "Canon and Text of the New Testament"] (T. & T. Clark: Edinburgh 1907), p. 363

The manuscript was examined by Johann Jakob Griesbach, Ropes, Motzo, Poole, Clark, Lagrange, and Walther.

• List of New Testament uncials
• List of New Testament Latin manuscripts
• Textual criticism

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• C. v. Tischendorf, [https://archive.org/stream/Tischendorf.iv.monumentaSacraInedita.newcollection.subscript.6vols.1857-1870/06.MonumentaSacraInedita.NCA.CodActLaud.V4.9th.Tischendorf.Subsc.1870.#page/n11/mode/2up Monumenta sacra IX], (Leipzig, 1870).
• J. H. Ropes, The Greek Text of Codex Laudianus, Harvard Theological Review XVI (Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1923), pp. 175–186.
• Samuel Berger, [https://archive.org/stream/MN41725ucmf_5#page/n13/mode/2up Un ancien texte latin des Actes des Apôtres retrouvé dans un manuscrit provenant de Perpignan] (Paris 1895), pp. 11–12.

• [http://www.bodley.ox.ac.uk/dept/scwmss/wmss/medieval/mss/laud.htm Manuscripts given by Archbishop William Laud (1573-1645)]
• R. Waltz, [http://www.skypoint.com/members/waltzmn/ManuscriptsUncials.html#uEa Codex Laudianus E (08)], Encyclopedia of Textual Criticism (2007)
• [https://web.archive.org/web/20130513174936/http://www.deeperstudy.org/link/ms_e.html Image from Codex Laudianus]
• {{Cite web | url = http://ntvmr.uni-muenster.de/en_GB/liste/?ObjID=20008 |title=Liste Handschriften |publisher=Institute for New Testament Textual Research |accessdate=8 March 2011|location=Münster}}
• [https://digital.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/inquire/p/55b2e494-4845-403e-9ba6-d812bda79329 MS. Laud Gr. 35] Images available on Digital Bodleian
• [https://medieval.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/catalog/manuscript_6848 MS. Laud Gr. 35] In the Bodleian Libraries Catalogue of Medieval Manuscripts

Laudianus

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