The Alexandrian Version or Codex Alexandrinus, is a manuscript in the British Museum, of great importance in Biblical criticism, written on parchment with uncial letters, and belonging probably to the latter half of the sixth century. It contains the whole Greek Bible (the Old Testament being according to the Septuagint), together with the letters of Bishop Clement of Rome, but it wants parts of Matthew, John, and Second Corinthians. The Patriarch of Constantinople, who in 1628 sent this manuscript as a present to Charles I, said he had received it from Egypt - hence its name. Research Alexandrian Version
The Basilean Manuscripts are two manuscripts of the Greek New Testament now in the library of Basel. They comprise a nearly complete uncial copy of the Gospels of the eighth century and a cursive copy of the whole New Testament except the Apocalypse, written in the tenth century. Research Basilean Manuscripts
Uncial is an ancient style of writing in capital letters. Derived from an expression of St Jerome's, the term uncial denotes the rounder and less regular characters resulting from the adaptation of stone-incised capitals to vellum writing. Research Uncial
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