Editing Codex Alexandrinus (section)

=== Place of origin ===
The codex's original provenance is unknown. [[Cyril Lucaris]] was the first to suggest [[Alexandria]] as its place of origin, which has been the traditional view and is the most probable hypothesis.{{r|Hernandez|p=100}} This popular view is based on an Arabic note on folio 1 (from the 13th or 14th century), which reads: "Bound to the Patriarchal Cell in the Fortress of Alexandria. Whoever removes it thence shall be excommunicated and cut off. Written by Athanasius the humble."{{r|Scot-Dangers|p=6}} "Athanasius the humble" is identified with [[Patriarch Athanasius III of Alexandria|Athanasius III]], Patriarch of Alexandria from 1276 to 1316.<ref name="prov-Alex">{{Cite book | first=T. C. | last=Skeat | contribution=The Provenance of the Codex Alexandrinus | title=The collected biblical writings of T. C. Skeat | date=January 2004 | publisher=BRILL | isbn=9004139206 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=td_OLXo4RvkC&pg=pl }}</ref>{{rp|119}}

[[Burnett Hillman Streeter]] proposed Caesarea or [[Beirut]] for three reasons: 1) after the New Testament it contains the two Epistles of Clement; 2) it represents an eclectic text in the New Testament (Antiochian in the Gospels and Alexandrian in the Acts and Epistles), suggesting some place where the influence of Antioch and of Alexandria met; 3) the text of the Old Testament appears to be a non-Alexandrian text heavily revised by the [[Hexapla]], as the Old Testament quotations in the New Testament portion more often agree with Alexandrinus against Vaticanus than not.<ref>{{Cite book | first=Burnett Hillman | last=Streeter | author-link=Burnett Hillman Streeter | title=The Four Gospels: A Study of Origins | pages=120–121 | year=1924 | publisher=Macmillan and Co., Ltd | location=London }}</ref>

[[Theodore Cressy Skeat|Theodore C. Skeat]] disputed the notion that the Codex Alexandrinus "had been in Alexandria from time immemorial".<ref name="Skeat">{{Cite journal | last=Skeat | first=Theodore Cressy | date=1955 | title=The Provenance of the Codex Alexandrinus | journal=The Journal of Theological Studies | series=New Series | volume=6 | number=2 | url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/23952726}}</ref>{{rp|p=235}} Instead, he thought that the codex was brought to Alexandria from Constantinople between 1308 and 1316.{{R|Skeat|page=235}} Cyril Lucaris then brought it back to Constantinople in 1621, and it was given to Charles I in 1627.{{R|Skeat|page=235}} 

McKendrick proposed an Ephesian provenance for the codex.{{r|Scot-Dangers|pp=10–11}}

A 17th-century [[Latin]] note on a flyleaf (from the binding in a royal library) states the codex was given to a patriarchate of Alexandria in 1098 (''donum dedit cubicuo Patriarchali anno 814 Martyrum''), although this may well be "merely an inaccurate attempt at deciphering the Arabic note by Athanasius" (possibly the patriarch Athanasius III).<ref>Westcott, "Canon", Appendix D. XII. p. 8</ref> The authority for this statement is unknown.{{r|FKenyon}}