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Uncial 06
Name:Claromontanus
Sign:D
Text:Pauline Epistles, Hebrews
Date:c. 550
Script:Greek-Latin diglot
Found:Clermont (purchased by Theodore Beza)
Now at:National Library of France
Type:Western text-type
Note:includes extra-canonical material


Codex Claromontanus (Gregory-Aland no. D or 06) is a 6th century manuscript in an uncial hand on vellum of the Epistles of Paul and the Epistle to the Hebrews in Greek and Latin on facing pages (thus a "diglot" manuscript, like Codex Bezae Cantabrigiensis).

It was named by Theodore Beza because he procured it in the town of Clermont-en-Beauvaisis, Oise, in the Picardie region north of Paris. The Codex is preserved at the Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris (shelfmark Gr. 107 AB).

The Calvinist scholar Theodore Beza was the first to examine it, and he included notes of some of its readings in his editions of the New Testament. Later, history of its use by editors of the Greek New Testament can be found in the links and references.

The Greek text of this codex is highly valued by critics as representing an early form of the text in the Western text-type, characterized by frequent interpolations and, to a lesser extent, interpretive revisions presented as corrections to this text. Modern critical editions of the New Testament texts are produced by an eclectic method, where the preferred reading is determined on a case-by-case basis, from among numerous variants offered by the early manuscripts and versions. In this process, Claromontanus is often employed as a sort of "outside mediator" in collating the more closely related, that is mutually dependent codices containing the Pauline epistles: Codex Alexandrinus, Codex Vaticanus, Codex Sinaiticus, and Codex Ephraemi Rescriptus. In a similar way, Codex Bezae Cantabrigiensis is used in establishing the history of texts of the Gospels and Acts.

The Codex Claromontanus contains further precious documents:

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Further reading

  • Hatch, W. H. P. The Principal Uncial Manuscripts Of The New Testament, 1939, The University of Chicago Press, Chicago.
  • Aland, Kurt and Barbara Aland, The Text Of The New Testament : An Introduction To The Critical Editions and To The Theory and Practice Of Modern Text Criticism, 1995, Grand Rapids, Michigan.
  • Metzger, Bruce M., The Text Of The New Testament : Its Transmission, Corruption and Restoration, 1968 etc, Oxford University Press. pp49 - 51, etc.
  • Trobisch, David, The Oldest Extant Editions of the Letters of Paul 1999 (e-text online)
  • Berschin, Walter, "Greek Manuscripts in Western Libraries" ch. 6 of Greek Letters and the Latin Middle Ages : From Jerome to Nicholas of Cusa: diglot mss in the West
A New Testament papyrus is a copy of a portion of the New Testament made on papyrus. To date, over one hundred such papyri are known. In general, they are considered the earliest and best witnesses to the original text of the New Testament.
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A New Testament uncial is a copy of a portion of the New Testament in Greek or Latin capital or uncial letters, written on parchment or vellum.

New Testament uncials are distinct from:

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A New Testament minuscule is a portion of the New Testament.[1]

List of notable minuscule codices

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The Pauline epistles typically refers to the fourteen New Testament books which have been traditionally ascribed to the Apostle Paul. Among them are some of the earliest extant Christian documents.
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The Epistle to the Hebrews (abbr. Heb for citations) is one of the books in the New Testament. Though traditionally credited to the Apostle Paul, the letter is anonymous.
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Clermont is the name of several places:
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Theodore Beza (Th̩odore de B̬ze or de Besze) (June 24, 1519 РOctober 13, 1605) was a French Protestant Christian theologian and scholar who played an important role in the early Reformation.
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The Western text-type is one of several text-types used in textual criticism to describe and group the textual character of Greek New Testament manuscripts. It is the term given to the predominant form of the New Testament text witnessed in the Old Latin translation from the Greek;
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The 6th century is the period from 501 to 600 in accordance with the Julian calendar in the Christian Era. This century is widely considered to mark the end of Classical Antiquity and the beginning of the Dark Ages.
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manuscript is any document that is written by hand, as opposed to being printed or reproduced in some other way. The term may also be used for information that is hand-recorded in other ways than writing, for example inscriptions that are chiselled upon a hard material or scratched
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Uncial is a majuscule script commonly used from the 3rd to 8th centuries AD by Latin and Greek scribes. From the 8th century to the 13th century the script was more often used as a display script in headings and titles.
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Vellum (from the Old French Vélin, for "calfskin"[1]) is a sort of processed animal hide as a material for use in producing written works in the scroll, codex or book form in the pre-printing Age using joined pages, characterized by its thin, smooth, durable
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The word "epistle" is from the Greek word epistolos which means a written "letter" addressed to a recipient or recipients, perhaps part of exchanged correspondence.
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The Epistle to the Hebrews (abbr. Heb for citations) is one of the books in the New Testament. Though traditionally credited to the Apostle Paul, the letter is anonymous.
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The Codex Bezae Cantabrigensis (Gregory-Aland no. D or 05) is an important codex of the New Testament dating from the fifth- or sixth-century. It is written in an uncial hand on vellum and contains, in both Greek and Latin, most of the four Gospels and Acts, with a
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Theodore Beza (Th̩odore de B̬ze or de Besze) (June 24, 1519 РOctober 13, 1605) was a French Protestant Christian theologian and scholar who played an important role in the early Reformation.
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Clermont is the name of several places:
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Department number: 60
Region: Picardie
Prefecture: Beauvais
Subprefectures: Clermont
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Motto: Fluctuat nec mergitur
(Latin: "Tossed by the waves, she does not sink")

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New Testament (Greek: Καινή Διαθήκη, Kainē Diathēkē) is the name given to the final portion of the Christian Bible, written after the Old Testament.
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codex (Latin for block of wood, book; plural codices) is a book in the format used for modern books, with separate pages normally bound together and given a cover.
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The Western text-type is one of several text-types used in textual criticism to describe and group the textual character of Greek New Testament manuscripts. It is the term given to the predominant form of the New Testament text witnessed in the Old Latin translation from the Greek;
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Codex Alexandrinus (London, British Library, MS Royal 1. D. V-VIII; Gregory-Aland no. A or 02) is a 5th century manuscript of the Greek Bible, containing the majority of the Septuagint and the New Testament.
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Codex Vaticanus (The Vatican, Bibl. Vat., Vat. gr. 1209; Gregory-Aland no. B or 03) is one of the oldest extant manuscripts of the Bible. It is slightly older than Codex Sinaiticus, both of which were probably transcribed in the 4th century.
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