Talk:Codices Ambrosiani

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This article is seriously deficient in its description of the manuscripts.

Codex Ambrosianus A contains parts of the Epistles and the Gothic Calendar. It's a good guess, but still only a guess, that the Epistles in this instance are in Gothic as well.

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.[2] It contains Apocrypha, 4 Ezra, 2 Baruch, 3 and 4 Maccabees, and a part of Josephus on the Maccabees. Written in the Syriac script? Is the language Syriac? Or did other languages use the Syriac script - e.g. the closely related Biblical Aramaic or Hebrew? If the language is Syriac, why not just say so, rather than telling us the script used? If B.21 is in Syriac (or some other language using the Syriac script), what language is the rest of B in?

Codex Ambrosianus C consists of two leaves and contains fragments of chapters 25 to 27 of the Gospel of Matthew. No clue whatever to the language here.

I am told by a friend who is the head of the Old Testament department at his university that Ambrosianus is the oldest complete manuscript of the Bible in Syriac. I presume he's referring to one or other of the MSS. No clue of that here though.

Koro Neil (talk) 22:14, 29 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]