Codex Bezae
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The Codex Bezae Cantabrigiensis, designated by siglum Dea or 05, δ 5, is a bi-lingual Greek and Latin manuscript of the New Testament written in an uncial hand on parchment. It contains most of the four Gospels and Acts, with a small fragment of 3 John. Using the study of comparative writing styles (palaeography), it is currently dated to the 5th century.
A sample of the Greek text from the Codex Bezae
John 3:26–4:1 (Greek text)
A sample of the Latin of the Codex Bezae
Uncial script
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Uncial is a majuscule script commonly used from the 4th to 8th centuries AD by Latin and Greek scribes. Uncial letters were used to write Greek and Latin, as well as Gothic, and are the current style for Coptic and Nobiin.
The Book of Kells, c. AD 800, is lettered in a script known as "insular majuscule", a variety of uncial script that originated in Ireland.
A sample of the Latin text from the Codex Bezae, 6th century AD
A portion of the Codex Sinaiticus, in Byzantine uncial, containing Esther 2:3–8.
An exemplary early 6th-century semi-uncial, Codex Basilicanus S. Petri D 182