 According to Bentley this manuscript is " the oldest and best in the world " . Bentley assumed that by supplementing this manuscript with readings from other manuscripts and from the Latin Vulgate , he could triangulate back to the single recension which he presumed existed at the time of the First Council of Nicaea . Wettstein highly esteemed the codex in 1730 , but he changed his opinion in 1751 and was no longer a great admirer of it . He came to the conviction that Athos was the place of its origin , not Alexandria . Michaelis also did not esteem it highly , either on account of its internal excellence or the value of its readings . The principal charge which has been produced against the manuscript , and which had been urged by Wettstein , is its having been altered from the Latin version . Michaelis countered that the transcriber who lived in Egypt would not have altered the Greek text from a Latin version , because Egypt belonged to the Greek diocese , and Latin was not understood there . Woide , who defended the Greek manuscripts in general , and the Codex Alexandrinus in particular , from the charge of having been corrupted from the Latin , discerned two hands in the New Testament . 
