Codex Laudianus

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The Codex Laudianus is a bilingual Greco-Latin manuscript of the Acts of the Apostles, dating from the late 6th or early 7th century CE. It is housed in the Bodleian Library at Oxford. This manuscript often aligns with the readings of Codex Bezae Cantabrigiensis, another significant Western text witness, but it also incorporates elements from other text types, including the Byzantine text. The term "Laudian" also refers to a supporter of Archbishop William Laud.123

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E^a, Codex Laudianus, is a bilingual Greco-Latin text of Acts presented in 1636 by Archbishop Laud, an Anglican churchman, to the Bodleian Library at Oxford. It is a late-6th- or early-7th-century manuscript often agreeing with D^ea and its Western readings but also having a mixture of…
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E^a, Codex Laudianus, is a bilingual Greco-Latin text of Acts presented in 1636 by Archbishop Laud, an Anglican churchman, to the Bodleian Library at Oxford. It is a late-6th- or early-7th-century manuscript often agreeing with D^ea and its Western readings but also having a mixture of…
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