Codex Laudianus
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New Testament manuscript |
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Page from Codex Laudianus (Acts 15:22-24)
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| Name | Laudianus |
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| Sign | Ea |
| Text | Book of Acts |
| Date | c. 550 |
| Script | Latin - Greek diglot |
| Now at | Bodleian Library, Oxford |
| Size | 27 × 22 cm (10.6 × 8.7 in) |
| Type | Western text-type |
| Category | II |
| Note | It contains Acts 8:37 |
Codex Laudianus, designated by Ea or 08 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), α 1001 (von Soden), called Laudianus after the former owner, Archbishop William Laud. It is a diglot Latin — Greek uncial manuscript of the New Testament, palaeographically assigned to the 6th century. It contains the Acts of the Apostles.
It is diglot manuscript with Greek and Latin in parallel columns on the same page, but Latin is in the left-hand column. The codex contains 227 parchment leaves of size 27 × 22 cm (10.6 × 8.7 in), with almost complete text of the Book of Acts (lacuna in 26:29-28:26). It is the earliest known manuscript which contain text of Acts 8:37.
The text is written in two columns per page, 24 and more lines per page. It is arranged in very short lines of only one to three words each. The text is written colometrically.
The Greek text of this codex exhibits a mixture of text-types, usually the Byzantine, but there are many Western and some Alexandrian readings. According to Kurt Aland it agrees with the Byzantine text-type 36 times, and 21 times with the Byzantine when it has the same reading as the original text. It agrees 22 times with the original text against the Byzantine. It has 22 independent or distinctive readings (Sonderlesarten). Aland placed it in Category II.
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