The Codex Toletanus, designated by T, is a 10th century Latin

Latin

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 manuscript of the Old

Old Testament

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 and New Testament

New Testament

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. The text, written on vellum

Vellum

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, is a version of the Latin Vulgate

Vulgate

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 Bible, which contains the entire Bible, including the trinity

Trinity

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 reference Comma Johanneum

Comma Johanneum

The Comma Johanneum is a comma in the First Epistle of John according to the Latin Vulgate text as transmitted since the Early Middle Ages, based on Vetus Latina minority readings dating to the 7th century...

.

Description

The text is written in three columns, 63-65 lines in a single colums, in Visigothic characters,
on 375 parchment leaves (43,8 by 33 cm). The Latin text of the four Gospels is a representative of the Spanish type of the Vulgate. It is the second important manuscript of the Spanish type (after Codex Cavensis). It contains the controverted text of the Comma Johanneum

Comma Johanneum

The Comma Johanneum is a comma in the First Epistle of John according to the Latin Vulgate text as transmitted since the Early Middle Ages, based on Vetus Latina minority readings dating to the 7th century...

 (1 John 5:7) in the same location as the Codex Cavensis (after v. 8). And it also contains the Prologue to the Canonical Epistles affirming the verse.

History

According to the note, Servandus of Seville gave the manuscript to his friend John, Bishop of Cordova, who in turn offered it in 988 CE

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 to the see of Servandus. The note was examined by A. Lowe, L. F. Smith, and A. C. Millares. The year 988 is usually regarded by scholars as a date of the completion of the codex. The manuscript was collated by Chr. Palomares for the Sixtine Vulgate, whose work written in 1569 is now presented in the Vatican Library

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 (Lat. 9508). It was not used in the Vulgata Clementina, as the manuscript was reached by Cardinal Carafa too late. The text was published by Giuseppe Bianchini

Giuseppe Bianchini

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 in 1740. It was collated by John Wordsworth

John Wordsworth

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 for his edition of the New Testament of Vulgate. Wordsworth designated the manuscript by siglum T. Currently the manuscript is housed in the National Library of Spain in Madrid

Madrid

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 (MS. Tol. 2. 1).

See also

• List of New Testament Latin manuscripts
• Codex Legionensis
  Codex Legionensis
  The Codex Legionensis, designated l or 67 , is a 7th century Latin script of the Old and New Testament. The text, written on vellum, is in a fragmentary condition. In some parts it represents the Old Latin version, while follows Jerome's Vulgate in others...
  
  

Further reading

• Giuseppe Bianchini, Vindiciae Canonicarum Scripturarum, Vulgatae Latinae editiones (Rome, 1740), pp. XLVII-CCVI; reprinted by Migne, PL XXIX, cols. 915-1152.