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Codex Amiatinus

Codex Amiatinus is an illuminated manuscript.

Also recorded as Amiatino 1 · Florence, Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana, Amiatino 1

Codex Amiatinus

Folio 5r from the Codex Amiatinus (Florence, Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana, MS Amiatinus 1), Ezra the scribe. "When the sacred books had been consumed in the fires of war, Ezra repaired the damage."

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Date
710
Material
parchment

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Codex Amiatinus is an illuminated manuscript.

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  1. 01Making and history
  2. 02Notes, references and evidence

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