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It is noted that St. Luke's Gospel alone, of
the books contained, is preserved complete.
Codex Bezae, one of the five most important
Greek New Testament manuscripts, and the most interesting of all on
account of its peculiar readings; scholars designate it by the letter D .
It receives its name from Theodore Beza, from the University of Cambridge,
which obtained it as a gift from Beza in 1581 and still is in possession
it. The text is bilingual, Greek and Latin. The manuscript, written in
uncial characters, forms a quarto volume, of excellent vellum, 10 x 8
inches, with one column to a page, the Greek being on the left page
(considered the place of honor), the parallel Latin facing it on the
right page.
The type of text found in D is very ancient, yet it has survived in this
one Greek manuscript alone, though it is found also in the Old Latin, the
Old Syriac, and the Old Armenian versions. It is the so-called Western
Text, or one type of the Western Text.
The Syriac Aramaic Peshitta Text of the
Gospel of Luke is also presented
here, as is the Syriac Aramaic Acts of the Apostles text, and the
Greek Gospel of Thomas from
Oxyrhynchus.
Greek text based on the transcript of F. H. SCRIVENER
unique features of the codex Bezae from comparison with texts of the
edition of Nestle - Aland:
- in bold character: difference in the
vocabulary, the declension, the conjugation or the phonetics.
- word underline: order specific from terms
- between brackets [.. ] :Restitution of one letter or of one word or
defect, or single correction supplied from texts.
- the asterisk *** are the sign of terms supplied in the other
manuscripts.
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