B
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B, the second letter of the alphabet, commonly used to designate Codex Vaticanus, a fourth-century a.d. parchment manuscript of the Greek Bible, now in the Vatican Library. It consists of 759 leaves (out of an original total of about 820), each measuring 10-5/8 by 10-5/8 inches with three columns to the page. The ot is complete, but all of the nt after Heb. 9:14 is lost (including the Pastoral Epistles and Revelation). Vaticanus is the leading representative of the type of text that scholars identify as Alexandrian. See also Codex; Texts, Versions, Manuscripts, Editions.
Achtemeier, P. J., Harper & Row, P., & Society of Biblical Literature. (1985). Harper's Bible dictionary. Includes index. (1st ed.) (84). San Francisco: Harper & Row.
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B
A designation of the 4th-century-c.e. Greek Codex Vaticanus.
Freedman, D. N., Myers, A. C., & Beck, A. B. (2000). Eerdmans dictionary of the Bible (134). Grand Rapids, Mich.: W.B. Eerdmans.
