There are only five missing folios which are noted in the Latin preface. A morphologically tagged edition of this electronic version is available in Accordance Bible software.Ĭodex Ambrosianus is carefully written in the Estrangela script, and is arranged in three columns per side. An electronic version of the canonical books of Codex Ambrosianus, based on that of the Leiden Peshitta Institute, can be examined at the Comprehensive Aramaic Lexicon. The manuscript was used as the base text for the critical edition of the Aramaic Peshitta Old Testament (Peshitta Tanakh) being produced by the Leiden Peshitta Institute. It was moved to Milan in the 17th century. The manuscript was discovered by Antonio Ceriani in 1866 and published in 1876-1883. The books in Codex Ambrosianus appear to be arranged in historical, rather than traditional canonical, order.Ĭodex Ambrosianus is the only Syriac manuscript to contain the Apocalypse of Baruch and IV Ezra in full. ![]() These include the Wisdom of Solomon, Letters of Jeremiah and of Baruch, Bel and the Dragon, Susanna, Judith, Ben Sirach, 1 Maccabees, 2 Maccabees, 3 Maccabees, 4 Maccabees, 2 Baruch with the Letter of Baruch, 2 Esdras, and Book VI of Josephus' The Jewish War. Like a number of other Aramaic Old Testament manuscripts, it also includes several of the Apocryphal books which are outside the Western Canon. by the Monastery of the God-Bearer, also known as Dier Al-Suryani (Arabic for The Monastery of the Syrians) situated in the Wadi Nitrun in the desert of Scetis south of Alexandria, Egypt.Ĭodex Ambrosianus includes all the books of the Old Testament (the Tanakh, or Hebrew Bible). It dates to the sixth or seventh century A.D., and is written in Estrangela script. 21 Inf 7a1 in the Leiden Peshitta Institute Edition of the Aramaic Old Testament.Ĭodex Ambrosianus is currently located in the Ambrosian Library in Milan, Italy, hence its name. Codex Ambrosianus is an extremely important folio-sized Syriac (Eastern Aramaic) manuscript of the entire Aramaic Peshitta Old Testament.
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