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leaf of the Codex Ambrosianus B. Codex Ambrosianus S. 45 super

The Codex Ambrosianus refers to five manuscripts written in the 6th and 7th century by different hands and in different alphabets. The codices contain scattered passages from the Old Testament (Nehemiah) and the New Testament (including parts of the Gospels and the Epistles), as well as some commentaries known as Skeireins. It is therefore likely that the text had been somewhat modified by copyists.

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Codices

The Codex Ambrosianus consists of five manuscripts, referred to as Codex Ambrosianus A, Codex Ambrosianus B, Codex Ambrosianus C, Codex Ambrosianus D and Codex Ambrosianus E. The Codex Ambrosianus A, B and C are located in the Biblioteca Ambrosiana in Milan, Italy.
Codex Ambrosianus A contains parts of the Epistles and the Gothic Calendar. It consists of 204 pages, of which 190 are legible, 2 are illegible and 12 are empty.
Codex Ambrosianus B contains parts of the Epistles, and consists of 156 pages, of which two are empty. The Codex Ambrosianus B.21 is written in syriac script.^[1] It contains Apocrypha, 4 Ezra, 2 Baruch, 3 and 4 Maccabees, and a part of Josephus on the Maccabees.
Codex Ambrosianus C consists of two leaves and contains fragments of chapters 25 to 27 of the Gospel of Matthew.

References

^ Antonio Maria Ceriani, Translatio syra pescitto Veteris Testamenti: ex codice Ambrosiano sec. fere VI, photolithographice edita, curante et adnotante (Milan, 1876).