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CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Codex Vaticanus |
 | | This codex is a quarto volume written in uncial letters of the fourth century, on folios of fine parchment bound in quinterns. |
 | | The Vatican Codex, in spite of the views of Tischendorf, who held for the priority of the Codex Sinaiticus, discovered by him, is rightly considered to be the oldest extant copy of the Bible. |
 | | It may be said that the Vatican Codex, written in the first half of the fourth century, represents the text of one of those recensions of the Bible which were current in the third century, and that it belongs to the family of manuscripts made use of by Origen in the composition of his Hexapla. |
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