Editing Codex Alexandrinus (section)

==Contents==

The codex contains a nearly complete copy of the [[Septuagint|LXX]], including the [[deuterocanonical]] books (those books not accepted as authoritative by some [[Christians]], but accepted by certain [[Christian denomination]]s) [[3 Maccabees|3]] and [[4 Maccabees]], [[Psalm 151]] and the [[Book of Odes (Bible)|14 Odes]]. The '''Epistle to Marcellinus''' (attributed to [[Saint Athanasius]]) and the [[Eusebius of Caesarea|Eusebian]] summary of the Psalms are inserted before the Book of Psalms (an overview of the Psalms written by the early Christian writer [[Eusebius of Caesarea]]). It also contains all of the books of the common modern 27-book [[New Testament]], however the pages containing Matthew 1:1–25:5 are not extant. The codex also contains [[First Epistle of Clement|1 Clement]] (lacking 57:7–63; this is a letter attributed to the early Christian writer [[Pope Clement I|Clement of Rome]]) and the homily known as [[Second Epistle of Clement|2 Clement]] (up to 12:5a; another letter attributed to Clement of Rome). The books of the Old Testament are thus distributed: [[Book of Genesis|Genesis]] – 2 Chronicles (first volume), [[Book of Hosea|Hosea]] – 4 Maccabees (second volume), Psalms – Sirach (third volume).<ref name="Swete">{{Cite book | first=Henry Barclay | last=Swete | author-link=Henry Barclay Swete | title=An Introduction to the Old Testament in Greek | page=125 | year=1902 | publisher=Macmillan and Co. | location=Cambridge | url=https://archive.org/stream/anintrotooldtes00swetuoft#page/124/mode/2up }}</ref> The New Testament (fourth volume) books are in the order: [[Gospel]]s, [[Acts of the Apostles]], [[General epistles]], [[Pauline epistles]] ([[Epistle to the Hebrews|Hebrews]] placed between [[Second Epistle to the Thessalonians|2 Thessalonians]] and [[First Epistle to Timothy|1 Timothy]]), [[Book of Revelation]].

There is an appendix marked in the index, which lists the [[Psalms of Solomon]] and probably contained more [[apocryphal]]/[[pseudepigraphical]] books (books written which have been attributed to certain famous people mentioned in the Bible, but likely of unknown authorship), but it has been torn off and the pages containing these books have also been lost.

[[File:Colophon Alexandrinus Jude.JPG|thumb|right|220px|[[Colophon (publishing)|Colophon]] at the end of the Epistle of Jude. According to this colophon Acts of the Apostles follows General epistles]]
Due to damage and lost folios, various passages are missing or have defects:
* Lacking: [[1 Samuel|1 Sam]] 12:17–14:9 (1 leaf); [[Psalms|Ps]] 49:20–79:11 (9 leaves);<ref>{{Cite book | last=Würthwein | first=Ernst |title=Der Text des Alten Testaments | publisher=[[Deutsche Bibelgesellschaft]] | edition=2nd | place= Stuttgart | year=1988 | page=85 | isbn=3-438-06006-X}}</ref> [[Gospel of Matthew|Matt]] 1:1-25:6 (26 leaves); [[Gospel of John|John]] 6:50-8:52 (2 leaves); [[2 Corinthians|2 Cor]] 4:13-12:6 (3 leaves);{{r|Aland}} 1 Clement 57:7-63 (1 leaf) and 2 Clement 12:5a-fin. (2 leaves);<ref name="Gregory">{{Cite book | last=Gregory | first=Caspar René | author-link=Caspar René Gregory | title=Textkritik des Neuen Testaments | volume= 1 | publisher=J.C. Hinrichs'sche Buchhandlung | year=1900 | location=Leipzig | url=https://archive.org/stream/textkritikdesne00greggoog#page/n43/mode/2up | access-date=18 March 2010 | language=de}}</ref>{{rp|30}}
* Damaged: [[Book of Genesis|Gen]] 14:14–17, 15:1–5, 15:16–19, 16:6–9 (lower portion of torn leaf lost);{{r|Gregory|p=29}}
* Defects due to torn leaves: Genesis 1:20–25, 1:29–2:3, [[Leviticus|Lev]] 8:6,7,16; [[Sirach]] 50:21f, 51:5;{{r|Swete}}
* [[Lacuna (manuscripts)|Lacunae]] on the edges of almost every page of the [[Book of Revelation|Apocalypse]].<ref name="Hernandez">{{Cite book | first=Juan | last=Hernández | title=Scribal habits and theological influences in the Apocalypse | page=102 | year=2006 | publisher=Mohr Siebeck | location=Tubingen | isbn=978-3-16-149112-2}}</ref>
* The ornamented [[Colophon (publishing)|colophon]] of the [[Epistle to Philemon]] has been cut out.<ref name="Thompson">{{Cite book | first=Edward Maunde | last=Thompson | title=Facsimile of the Codex Alexandrinus: New Testament and Clementine Epistles | volume=5 | year=1909 | publisher=Oxford University Press | location=London | url=https://archive.org/details/TheCodexAlexandrinusV.5}}</ref>{{rp|4}}