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...Vatican's permission arrived. "It was as if nobody had made copies of the Constitution, the Bill of Rights and the Magna Carta and you asked permission to do so and got it," one Jesuit gulped. Among the manuscripts likely to be photographed: the 4th Century Codex Vaticanus, a Greek Bible with the oldest and most important extant copy of the New Testament; the Codex Marchalianus, a 6th Century vellum scroll containing the complete Old Testament prophets; the original author's manuscript of St. Thomas Aquinas' Summa Contra Gentiles...
...Codex Sinaiticus. dating from the 4th Century, contains all the New Testament, scraps of the Old. In antiquity it vies only with the Codex Vaticanus which has been in the Vatican's possession for centuries. Next oldest biblical text is the Codex Alexandrinus of the late 4th or 5th Century, now possessed by the British Museum...
...many of the manuscripts taken from Heidelberg. The whole number of Greek, Latin and Oriental manuseripts now in the Library is 23,580, being the finest collection in the world. It also contains 30,000 beoks. among the large number of manuscript treasures which the Library contains the "Codex Vaticanus," or the "Bible of the End of the Fourth or Beginning of the Fifth Century," in Greek, and containing the oldest authentic version of the Septuagint and the first Greek version of the new Testament, is perhaps the most valuable. The "Cicero de Republica," the celebrated Palimpset discov...