Manuscript witnesses · Evidence Catalog

Follow a witness without confusing the manuscript with a reading about it.

Manuscript identities, dates, repositories, rights, and source records are cataloged separately from passage-specific transcriptions, textual readings, editorial selections, and interpretations.

Manuscript boundary: A manuscript profile establishes the identity/provenance record currently curated in the Codex. It does not automatically establish what that manuscript reads at every verse. Passage-specific claims require their own MANUSCRIPT_EVIDENCE record.
Curated manuscript entities

11 manuscript records

This is current catalog coverage, not a claim to contain every biblical manuscript.

ManuscriptMANUSCRIPT_ALEPPO_CODEX

Aleppo Codex (Keter Aram Tsova)

Tenth-century Masoretic Hebrew Bible codex associated with the Ben Asher tradition and preserved today under the Aleppo Codex custodial framework.

Datefirst half of 10th century CELanguageHebrew
Biblical textual witnessJewish context
ManuscriptMANUSCRIPT_CODEX_ALEXANDRINUS

Codex Alexandrinus (Royal MSS 1 D V–VIII)

Fifth-century Greek biblical codex now preserved in four British Library volumes, containing extensive Old and New Testament material.

Date5th century CELanguageGreek
Biblical textual witnessChristian context
ManuscriptMANUSCRIPT_CODEX_BEZAE

Codex Bezae Cantabrigiensis (MS Nn.2.41)

Late fourth- or fifth-century bilingual Greek-Latin New Testament manuscript especially important for its distinctive text of the Gospels and Acts.

Datelate 4th or 5th century CELanguageGreek, Latin
Biblical textual witnessChristian context
ManuscriptMANUSCRIPT_CODEX_SINAITICUS

Codex Sinaiticus

Fourth-century Greek biblical codex represented here as a first-class manuscript entity. Passage-level transcriptions/readings remain separate research records.

Datemiddle of 4th century CELanguageGreek
Biblical textual witnessChristian context
ManuscriptMANUSCRIPT_CODEX_VATICANUS

Codex Vaticanus (Vat.gr.1209)

Fourth-century Greek biblical manuscript held by the Vatican Library, cataloged separately from any passage-level reading claims.

Date4th century CELanguageGreek
Biblical textual witnessChristian context
ManuscriptMANUSCRIPT_1QPHAB

Commentary on Habakkuk / Pesher Habakkuk (1QpHab)

Qumran Hebrew pesher preserving Habakkuk 1–2 in cited units with sectarian interpretation. The entity is especially useful for keeping biblical quotation, manuscript reading, and later interpretation as separate evidence layers.

Datesecond half of 1st century BCELanguageHebrew
Jewish contextBiblical textual witness
ManuscriptMANUSCRIPT_1QS

Community Rule Scroll (1QS / Serekh Hayahad)

Major Qumran sectarian rule text governing communal admission, discipline, covenantal life, and related beliefs. Cataloged as a Jewish manuscript witness, not as biblical Scripture.

Dateca. 100–75 BCELanguageHebrew
Jewish context
ManuscriptMANUSCRIPT_1QISAA

Great Isaiah Scroll (1QIsaᵃ)

Dead Sea Scroll biblical manuscript preserving the complete book of Isaiah and providing a major pre-Masoretic Hebrew witness. v50 catalogs the manuscript identity without importing project imagery or treating the entity record as a verse-by-verse transcription.

Dateca. 125 BCELanguageHebrew
Biblical textual witnessJewish context
ManuscriptMANUSCRIPT_P75

Papyrus 75 — Hanna Papyrus 1 (Mater Verbi)

Early Greek papyrus biblical witness represented as a manuscript entity; the current catalog links to the Archive’s existing John 1 witness research without importing restricted imagery.

Dateearly 3rd century CELanguageGreek
Biblical textual witnessChristian context
ManuscriptMANUSCRIPT_11Q19

Temple Scroll (11Q19)

One of the longest Dead Sea Scrolls, presenting an idealized temple and legal/cultic program in Hebrew. Cataloged for Second-Temple Jewish legal, architectural, and cultic research.

Datelate 2nd–1st century BCELanguageHebrew
Jewish context
ManuscriptMANUSCRIPT_1QM

War Scroll (1QM)

Qumran War Scroll, a Hebrew eschatological/military composition from Cave 1. It is valuable for Jewish military, sectarian, and apocalyptic language in the late Second Temple period.

Date1st century BCE–1st century CELanguageHebrew
Jewish context

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