This article is about the Gothic-language manuscripts. For other manuscripts from the Biblioteca Ambrosiana, seeCodex Ambrosianus (disambiguation).
leaf of the Codex Ambrosianus B. Codex Ambrosianus S. 45 super
TheCodices Ambrosiani A–E are fivebiblical manuscripts dating to the 6th–11th centuries CE. They reside in theBiblioteca Ambrosiana inMilan, as well as in Turin and Vatican City. They are written by different authors and use differentalphabets. The codices A to D contain scattered passages from theOld Testament (Nehemiah) and theNew Testament (including parts of theGospels and theEpistles), whereas the codex E contains the commentaries known asSkeireins. The contents of the codices are rare survivals in theGothic language.[1]
Codex Ambrosianus A contains parts of the Epistles and the Gothic Calendar. It consists of 204 pages, of which 190 are legible, 2 are illegible and 12 are blank.
Codex Ambrosianus B contains parts of the Epistles, including a complete text of 2 Corinthians, and consists of 156 pages, of which two are blank. B.21 is written inSyriac language andscript.[2] It is the basis of the Leiden Peshitta critical edition of thePeshitta Old Testament (Leiden siglum 7a1). Nominally dated to the 7th century, the consensus is that it is not older than the 6th century. It containsApocrypha,4 Ezra,2 Baruch,3 and4 Maccabees, and a part ofJosephus on theMaccabees.
Codex Ambrosianus C consists of two leaves and contains fragments of chapters 25 to 27 of theGospel of Matthew.
Codex Ambrosianus D consists of fragments of theBook of Nehemiah.
^Miller, Gary D. (2019).The Oxford Gothic Grammar. Oxford: Oxford University Press. pp. 9–10.
^Antonio Maria Ceriani,Translatio syra pescitto Veteris Testamenti: ex codice Ambrosiano sec. fere VI, photolithographice edita, curante et adnotante (Milan, 1876).
