Theodore's Bible: the Pentateuch
Richard Marsden
The biblical commentaries preserved in Milan, Biblioteca Ambrosiana, M. 79 sup., are a treasury of information about Theodore's contribution to Anglo-Saxon learning the late seventh century. For historian Latin Bible, however, lemmata which accompany source knowledge no less valuable. There 465 distinct for Pentateuch, high proportion them from Genesis or Exodus, including also sixteen Jerome's preface Genesis. Varying length single word whole sentences, and totalling nearly 1,500 words, they provide us with our earliest clear evidence Pentateuch text use England, predating by generation Northumbrian ‘Codex Amiatinus’. More than this, may add general Vulgate textual history period between death Carolingian Bible revisions eighth ninth centuries, which, apart Codex Amiatinus, only two other manuscripts containing survive. However fragmentary it be, offered thus demands closest scrutiny.
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