Editing Codex Alexandrinus (section)

===Collations and editions===
[[File:Codex Alexandrinus J 1,1-7.PNG|thumb|right|200px|Fragment from [[Carl Gottfried Woide|Woide]]'s facsimile edition (1786), containing text of John 1:1–7]]
The text of the Epistles of Clement from the codex was published in 1633 by [[Patrick Young]], the Royal Librarian. A collation was made by [[Alexander Huish]], Prebendary of Wells, for the ''[[London Polyglot|London Polyglot Bible]]'' (1657). The text of the codex was cited in footnotes.{{r|Metzger}} [[Richard Bentley]] made a collation in 1675.

The Old Testament was edited by Ernst Grabe in 1707–1720,<ref name="Kenyon">{{Cite book| first=Frederic G. | last=Kenyon | author-link=Frederic G. Kenyon | title=Handbook to the Textual Criticism of the New Testament | year=1912 | publisher=Macmillan and Co. | location=London | url=https://archive.org/details/handbooktotextua00keny}}</ref>{{rp|73}} and the New Testament by [[Carl Gottfried Woide]] in 1786, in facsimile from wooden type, line for line, without spaces between the words, exactly mimicking the original.<ref name="Horne224">{{Cite book | first=Thomas Hartwell | last=Horne | author-link=Thomas Hartwell Horne | title=An Introduction to the Critical Study and Knowledge of the Holy Scriptures | volume=1 | page=224 | year=1841 | publisher=Longmans, Green, and Co. | location=London }}</ref> For the text in 1 Tim 3:16, the facsimile has {{overline|ΘΣ}} {{lang|grc|ἐφανερόθη}}, and [[Carl Gottfried Woide|Woide]] in his [[prolegomenon]] combats the opinion of [[Johann Jakob Wettstein|Wettstein]],{{r|Wettstein|pp=CDXCVIb-CIXCIXb}} who maintained that {{lang|grc|ος}} {{lang|grc|ἐφανερόθη}} was the original reading, and that the stroke, which in some lights can be seen across part of the Ο, arose from the middle-stroke part of a letter Ε being visible through the vellum.{{r|Tregelles|p=156}} Wettstein's assertion was also disputed by F.H. Scrivener, who found that "Ε cut the Ο indeed . . . but cut it too high to have been reasonably mistaken by a careful observer for the diameter of Θ."{{r|Scriv-Intro|pp=453–454}} Tregelles however agrees with Wettstein's reading of the codex, and states "as the result of repeated examinations, we can say distinctly that Woide was wrong, and Wetstein was right."{{r|Tregelles|p=156}}

Woide's edition contained some typesetting errors, such as in the [[Epistle to Ephesians]] – {{lang|grc|ἐκλήθηθε for ἐκλήθητε}} (4:1) and πραόθητος for πραότητος (4:2).{{r|Tregelles|p=156}} These errors were corrected in 1860 by B. H. Cowper, and E. H. Hansell, with three other manuscripts, in 1860.{{r|Gregory|p=30}}<ref>B. H. Cowper, "Notitia codicis Alexandrini, Recud. cur. notasque adjecit" (London, 1860).</ref> The Old Testament portion was also published in three folio volumes by Baber in 1816–1828.{{r|Nestle-Edie|p=58}} In 1879 and 1880, the entire codex was issued in photographic facsimile by the British Museum, under the supervision of [[Edward Maunde Thompson|E. M. Thompson]].{{r|Ehrman|Thompson}} Frederic G. Kenyon edited a photographic facsimile of the New Testament with reduced size in 1909. The text of the Old Testament followed four parts in 1915.{{r|FKenyon}}