 According to Skeat the note in the codex indicated that the manuscript had not previously been in the Patriarchal Library in Alexandria . The manuscript was carried from Constantinople to Alexandria between 1308 and 1316 , together with two mentioned above manuscripts of Chrysostom . It remained in Alexandria until 1621 , when Cyril removed it once to Constantinople . Whether was originally written , in Constantinople or in Alexandria , is another question . Skeat did not try to give the answer on this question ( " if any future scholar <unk> to claim a Constantinopolitan origin for the Codex Alexandrinus , it is at least open to him to do so " ) . This view was supported by McKendrick , who proposes Ephesian provenance of the codex . 
