Codex Bezae
Overview
A bilingual manuscript of the Gospels and Acts from around 400, with Greek on the left page and Latin on the right. Its text departs strikingly from most other manuscripts, and its version of Acts is noticeably longer than the standard text. The Calvinist scholar Theodore Beza presented it to the University of Cambridge in 1581. It is the principal witness to the so-called Western text of the New Testament.
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