Codex Carolinus

This article is about a 6th- or 7th-century Biblical manuscript. For the 8th-century collection of letters, see Codex epistolaris Carolinus.
Codex Carolinus, showing the text of Romans 15:3-8

Codex Carolinus is an uncial manuscript of the New Testament on parchment, dated to the 6th or 7th century. It is a palimpsest containing a Latin text written over a Gothic one. The Gothic text is designated by siglum Car, the Latin text is designated by siglum gue (traditional system) or by 79 (on the list of Beuron), it represents the Old Latin translation of the New Testament.[1] It is housed in the Herzog August Library in Wolfenbüttel in Lower Saxony, Germany.

It is one of very few manuscripts of Wulfila's Gothic Bible.[2][3] The manuscript is fragmentary. The four leaves of the codex were used as raw material for the production of another manuscript – Codex Guelferbytanus 64 Weissenburgensis. It is a palimpsest, and its text has been reconstructed several times. Franz Anton Knittel was the first to examine it and decipher its text.[1]

  1. ^ a b Cite error: The named reference Metzger was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  2. ^ Metzger, Bruce M. (1977). The Early Versions of the New Testament. Oxford: Oxford University Press. pp. 378–382. ISBN 0-19-826170-5.
  3. ^ Manuscripts of Gothic Bible at the Wulfila Project