Codex Bezae
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The Codex Bezae Cantabrigiensis is a bi-lingual Greek and Latin manuscript of the New Testament written in an uncial hand on parchment. It is designated by the siglum Dea or 05 in the Gregory-Aland nu
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
Codex Bezae
…The Codex Bezae Cantabrigiensis ('Beza's Cambridge Book') is a bi-lingual Greek and Latin manuscript of the New Testament written in an uncial hand on parchment. It is designated by the siglum Dea or 05 in the Gregory-Aland numbering of New Testament manuscripts, and δ 5 in the von Soden…
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 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