Codex Claromontanus

Uncial 06

New Testament manuscript papyri uncials minuscules lectionaries
Page from Codex Claromontanus
Name	Claromontanus
Sign	D
Text	Pauline Epistles, Hebrews
Date	c. 550
Script	Greek-Latin diglot
Found	Clermont (purchased by Theodore Beza)
Now at	Bibliothèque nationale de France
Size	24.5 × 19.5 cm (9.6 × 7.7 in)
Type	Western text-type
Category	II
Note	includes extra-canonical material

Codex Claromontanus, symbolized by D^p or 06 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), δ 1026 (von Soden), is a Greek-Latin diglot uncial manuscript of the New Testament, written in an uncial hand on vellum. The Greek and Latin text are on facing pages. The Latin text is designated by d (traditional system) or by 75 in Beuron system.

The codex contains the Pauline epistles on 533 leaves, 24.5 × 19.5 cm (9.6 × 7.7 in). The text is written in one column per page, 21 lines per page. At least 9 different correctors worked on this codex. The fourth corrector, from the 9th century, added accents and breathings.

The codex is dated palaeographically to the 5th or 6th century.

The Codex Claromontanus contains further precious documents:

The Greek text of this codex is highly valued by critics as representing an early form of the text in the Western text-type, characterized by frequent interpolations and, to a lesser extent, interpretive revisions presented as corrections to this text. Modern critical editions of the New Testament texts are produced by an eclectic method, where the preferred reading is determined on a case-by-case basis, from among numerous variants offered by the early manuscripts and versions.

In this process, Claromontanus is often employed as a sort of "outside mediator" in collating the more closely related, that is mutually dependent, codices containing the Pauline epistles: Codex Alexandrinus, Codex Vaticanus, Codex Sinaiticus, and Codex Ephraemi Rescriptus. In a similar way, Codex Bezae Cantabrigiensis is used in establishing the history of texts of the Gospels and Acts.