Editing Codex Amiatinus (section)

{{Short description|Anglo-Saxon copy of c. 700 of the Vulgate Bible}}
[[File:CodxAmiatinusFolio5rEzra.jpg|thumb|230px|Portrait of [[Ezra]], from folio 5r at the start of [[Old Testament]] is "the oldest English painting to which an absolute date can be assigned (i.e. not after 716)."{{r|MWRM}}]]

The '''Codex Amiatinus''' (also known as the '''Jarrow Codex''') is considered the best-preserved [[Vulgate manuscripts|manuscript of the Latin Vulgate version]]<ref name="Metzger">{{Cite book | first1=Bruce Manning | last1=Metzger | author-link1=Bruce M. Metzger | first2=Bart D. | last2=Ehrman | author-link2=Bart D. Ehrman | title=The Text of the New Testament: Its Transmission, Corruption and Restoration | edition=4th | page=106 | year=2005 | publisher=Oxford University Press | location=Oxford | isbn=0-19-516667-1 | url=https://archive.org/details/textofnewtestame0000metz_k4t1 | url-access=registration}}</ref> of the [[Christian Bible]]. It was produced around 700 in the northeast of England, at the [[Benedictine]] [[Monkwearmouth–Jarrow Abbey]] in the [[Kingdom of Northumbria]], now [[South Tyneside]]. It was one of three giant single-volume Bibles then made at Monkwearmouth–Jarrow, and is the earliest complete one-volume Latin Bible to survive, only the [[León palimpsest]] being older. It is the oldest Bible where all the [[biblical canon]] present what would be their Vulgate texts. In 716 it was taken to Italy as a gift for [[Pope Gregory II]].

It is named after the location in which it was found in modern times, [[Monte Amiata]] in [[Tuscany]], at the [[Abbazia di San Salvatore]] and is now kept at [[Florence]] in the [[Laurentian Library|Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana  (Laurentian Library)]].{{r|CE}}

Designated by [[scribal abbreviation|siglum]] A, it is commonly considered to provide the most reliable surviving representation of [[Jerome]]'s Vulgate text for the books of the New Testament, and most of the Old Testament. As was standard in all Vulgate Bibles until the ninth century,<ref>{{Cite journal | first=Pierre-Maurice | last=Bogaert | title=Le livre de Baruch dans les Manuscrits de la Bible Latine: Disparition et Réintégration | trans-title=The Book of Baruch in the Latin Bible Manuscripts: Disappearance and Reintegration | journal=Revue Bénédictine | volume=115 | issue=2 | year=2005 | pages=286–342 | doi=10.1484/J.RB.5.100598}}</ref> the ''[[Book of Baruch]]'' is absent as is the ''[[Letter of Jeremiah]]'', the text of the [[Book of Lamentations]] following the end of ''Jeremiah'' without a break.<ref name="Stuttgart">{{ Cite book | editor1-first=Robert | editor1-last=Weber | editor2-first=Roger | editor2-last=Gryson | title=Biblia Sacra iuxta vulgatam versionem | trans-title=The Holy Bible: Latin Vulgate Version | edition=5 | year=2007 | publisher=Deutsche Bibelgesellschaft | location=Stuttgart | isbn=978-3-438-05303-9 | lang=Latin}}</ref><ref name="CE">{{Catholic Encyclopedia | wstitle=Codex Amiatinus | volume=4 | first=John Francis | last=Fenlon | inline=1}}</ref> [[Ezra–Nehemiah]] is presented as a single book, the texts of the canonical [[Book of Ezra]] and [[Book of Nehemiah]] being continuous. Similarly the books of [[Books of Samuel|Samuel]], [[Books of Kings|Kings]] and [[Books of Chronicles|Chronicles]] are each presented as a single book.<ref>{{ Cite book | editor1-first=Edmon L. | editor1-last=Gallagher | author1-link=Edmon L. Gallagher | editor2-first=John. D. | editor2-last=Meade | title=The Biblical Canon Lists of Early Christianity | pages=258 | year=2017 | publisher=Oxford University Press | location=Oxford}}</ref>