The Codex Amiatinus, also known as the Jarrow Codex, is considered the best preserved manuscript of the Latin Vulgate Bible. It was produced around the year 700 at the Benedictine monastery of Monkwearmouth Jarrow in the Kingdom of Northumbria, one of three giant single volume Bibles made there, and is the earliest complete one volume Latin Bible to survive. In 716 it was carried to Italy as a gift for Pope Gregory II, and it is now held in the Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana in Florence.
Facts
Year CreatedCirca. Three copies were commissioned in 692; this one was produced around 700 and taken to Italy in 716. MediumIlluminated manuscript on vellum 1 LocationBiblioteca Medicea Laurenziana, Florence 1 Classification
GenreManuscript Illumination 1 Connections
In Form
Anglo-Saxon illuminated pandect Bible.
Sources
1. Codex Amiatinus (Wikipedia)
WikipediaWikipedia, Codex Amiatinus, Description section
It contains 1,040 leaves of strong, smooth vellum, fresh-looking today despite their great antiquity, arranged in quires of four sheets, or quaternions.
Wikipedia, Codex Amiatinus, lead paragraph (repository sentence)
is now kept at Florence in the Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana (Laurentian Library)
Wikipedia, Codex Amiatinus, lead paragraph (production date sentence)
It was produced around 700 in the northeast of England, at the Benedictine Monkwearmouth-Jarrow Abbey in the Kingdom of Northumbria, now South Tyneside.
Genre reference
The Codex Amiatinus, also known as the Jarrow Codex, is considered the best preserved manuscript of the Latin Vulgate Bible.
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