December
07
/ 2017
The Codex Amiatinus dates to the end of the 7th century AD; making it the oldest known surviving complete Catholic Bible written in the Latin Vulgate. It has been estimated that over 1500 calves were slaughtered to create the material for just three copies of this text and seven scribes were enlisted to write and decorate the monumental work. This manuscript was commissioned and written in the famous scriptorium of the Wearmouth-Jarrow Abbey, which was then part of the Anglo-Saxon Kingdom of Northumbria. The Codex Amiatinus traveled from England to Italy, where it remained for over a millennium. It was only in 2014 that the manuscript returned for the first time to its place of birth and was temporarily displayed
