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title: Codex Alexandrinus
author: British Library
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updated: 1970-01-01
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# Codex Alexandrinus

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## Image Caption

Codex Alexandrinus, one of the three early [Greek](https://www.worldhistory.org/disambiguation/greek/) manuscripts that preserve both the Old and the New Testaments together, copied in the 5th century.

British Library, London.

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