 In 1888 de Rossi discovered that the Codex Amiatinus, the earliest surviving manuscript of the complete Bible in the Latin Vulgate version, was related to the Bibles mentioned by Bede.It was also established that the Codex Amiatinus was related to the "Greenleaf" Bible fragment in the British Library.For a thousand years the Codex Amiatinus was believed to be Italian in origin.