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CODEX ALEXANDRINUS

A 5th-century codex (siglum A) containing the OT, except for several mutilations, and most of the NT. Lacking are Gen. 14:14-17; 15:1-5, 16-19; 16:6-9; 1 Sam. 12:20–14:9; Pss. 49:19–79:10. Matthew up to 25:6 is lost, as are John 6:50–8:52; 2 Cor. 4:13–12:6, and, according to the table of contents, Psalms of Solomon. Included are the letters of Clement of Rome. The manuscript now contains 773 leaves, but originally there were 822. Each leaf measures 32 by 26.3 cm. (12.6 by 10.4 in.). There are two columns to the page, and the writing is in a firm uncial hand. The work of several correctors is evident.

The nature of the text of Codex A, whose origin is unknown, is far from uniform. Hexaplaric influence is evident in Joshua, Ruth, Esther, and to a much greater extent in Samuel and Kings. Chronicles and 1-2 Esdras probably represent an early Alexandrian Text, and Lucianic elements occur in Job, Psalms, and the Prophets. The Gospels represent the Byzantine Text; the rest of the NT, with Codex Vaticanus and Codex Sinaiticus, represents the Alexandrian Text.

The codex has been in England since 1627, when it was presented to King Charles I by Cyril Lucar, patriarch of Alexandria (until 1621) and Constantinople (1621-38). Lucar obtained the manuscript from Mt. Athos in 1616. Now bound in four volumes, it is housed in the British Museum next to Codex Sinaiticus.

Carroll D. Osburn

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CODEX ALEXANDRINUS

Eerdmans Dictionary of the Bible (2000)