<p>BEZAE CODEX CANTABRIGIENSIS</p><p><br></p><p>This book contains a complete transcript of the Greek and Latin Text of the Bezae Codex, as well as an extensive introduction in English.</p><p><br></p><p>From the introduction: "The Greek text... we believe to bear distinct traces of an origin far more remote. Itself immediately derived from a manuscript... [of which the origin] would most likely belong to the third century at the latest. In respect, moreover, to its rare and peculiar readings, the close resemblance of Codex Bezae to the text of the Syriac versions (with which it could hardly have been compared later than the second century), and to that of the Old Latin, yet unrevised by Jerome, as employed by Cyprian and Augustine in Africa, by the translator of Irenaeus, by Hilary and Lucifer and Ambrose in the North-west, - such resemblance (far too constant to be the result of chance) persuades us to regard with the deepest interest this venerable monument of Christian learning..."</p>
