Editing Codex Vaticanus (section)

== Importance ==
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Codex Vaticanus is considered as one of the most important manuscripts for the text of the [[Septuagint]] and Greek [[New Testament]]. It is a leading example of the [[Alexandrian text-type]]. It was used by [[Brooke Foss Westcott|Westcott]] and [[Fenton John Anthony Hort|Hort]] in their edition, ''[[The New Testament in the Original Greek]]'' (1881), and it was the basis for their text.{{r|West-Hort|p=34}} All critical editions of the New Testament published after Westcott and Hort were closer in the Gospels to the Codex Vaticanus text than to the Sinaiticus, with only the exception of [[Hermann von Soden]]'s editions which are closer to Sinaiticus. All editions of Nestle-Aland remain close in textual character to the text of Westcott-Hort.{{r|Aland|pp=26–30}}

According to the commonly accepted opinion of the textual critics, it is the most important witness of the text of the Gospels, in the Acts and Catholic epistles, with a stature equal to Codex Sinaiticus,<ref>{{Cite book | first=W. L. | last=Richards | title=The Classification of the Greek Manuscripts of the Johannine Epistles | page=141 | year=1977 | publisher=Scholars Press | location=Missoula | isbn=0-89130-140-2 | url=https://archive.org/details/classificationof0000rich | url-access=registration}}</ref> although in the Pauline epistles it includes Western readings and the value of the text is somewhat less than the Codex Sinaiticus.{{r|Waltz|Metzger}} The manuscript is not complete. Aland notes: "B is by far the most significant of the uncials".{{r|Aland}}