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[[Image:Vaticanus.jpg|thumb|A page from Codex Vaticanus]]
 
[[Image:Vaticanus.jpg|thumb|A page from Codex Vaticanus]]
The '''Codex Vaticanus''' is a Greek manuscript of Holy Scripture. The oldest complete [[bible]]s are the Codex Vaticanus and the [[Codex Sinaiticus]]. The codex Vaticanus was brought to the [[Vatican]] from [[Constantinople]] as a gift to the [[pope]] in the fourteenth century. A more common opinion maintains that it was written in [[Egypt]].
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The '''Codex Vaticanus''' is a Greek manuscript of Holy Scripture. The oldest complete [[bible]]s are the Codex Vaticanus and the [[Codex Sinaiticus]]. The source of the Codex Vaticanus is unknown, but the two most likely sources are either it was brought to the [[Vatican]] from [[Constantinople]] as a gift to the [[pope]] in the fourteenth century, or it was written in [[Egypt]].
    
''In 1860 Alford, and in 1862 Cure, examined a select number of the readings of the Vatican Codex, and published the results of their labours in the first volume of Alford's Greek Testament.''
 
''In 1860 Alford, and in 1862 Cure, examined a select number of the readings of the Vatican Codex, and published the results of their labours in the first volume of Alford's Greek Testament.''
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