Codex Vaticanus Graece 1209, B/03

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I have set up this site to present some info on the worlds single most important biblical manuscript, Codex Vaticanus Graece 1209, B/03. Recently there has been made a new discovery by Philip Payne, the so called "umlauts", double dots which seem to indicate textual variants. This site describes the codex and these umlauts.
All images on this site are taken from the new 1999 colour facsimile. This is a limited edition of 500 exemplars, available for $5.000 (sic!) at: Casalini libri.
The cataloguing work has been done in June 2001 with the new colour facsimile, which has been made available by a generous loan from the library of Berlin. THANK YOU!
I would also like to thank Maurice Robinson for many helpful discussions and Paul Canart of the Vatican library for being so kind and checking the original for me. THANK YOU!

17th February 2015:
New high resolution images have been put online by the Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana.
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Textual Criticism Blog
17th July 2008:
  • Under "Umlauts" new article added Amphoux JTS 2007.
    • 11th October 2004:
  • Under "Umlauts" two new articles added Miller-2003 and Payne-2004.
    • 09th January 2003:
  • Under "General description" a chapter Lectionary labels included.
    • 15th April 2002:
  • Image of Bruce M. Metzger added.
    • 15th November 2001:
  • Images of hexaplaric signs and umlauts and triplets in the Old Testament added
    • 9th October 2001:
  • A page about the textcritical complaint at Heb 1:3 added.
    • 7th October 2001:
  • Some more images added to the corrections and observations pages.
    • 5th October 2001:
  • Pages added showing the book headings and the end colophons.
    • 4th October 2001:
  • Images added to the "General" section
    • 2nd October 2001: The word-order umlaut added

    Several requests came in about the text at the double dot positions. I have confined my presentation because a student of Maurice Robinson is currently working on exactly this: Variants at the umlauts and their witnesses. I do not want to spoil this work. He is investing much time and the outcome will surely be better than mine. My contribution is more to give the basics, show interesting things, scrutinize several assumptions and ask questions. It is meant as a start for discussion. In the future I will certainly present more stuff including discussion of variants.
    28th September 2001:
  • Observation regarding umlaut dating added: The squeezed letter
  • Payne 1995 pdf article added
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    18-27th September 2001: Some images added
    17th September 2001: Site launch

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