Codex

Codex (Lat., a manuscript). There are, according to Mr. Scrivener, 1,583 Codices of the New Testament known to exist. Probably others will yet be found in out-of-the-way Eastern monasteries. But very few of these MSS. contain the whole of the New Testament. The Codices are divided into Uncials, i. e., those written in capital letters, and Cursives, those in running-hand. One of the most valuable, the Codex Sinaiticus, was found by Tischen-dorf, in the monastery on Mount Sinai, in 1859. See Bible; Textual Criticism.