Editing Codex Vaticanus (section)

=== Text-type ===
In the Old Testament, the type of text varies, with a received text in Ezekiel and a rejected one in the [[Isaiah|Book of Isaiah]].{{r|Metzger}} In Judges the text differs substantially from that of the majority of manuscripts, but agrees with the [[Old Latin]], [[Coptic versions of the Bible|Sahidic version]] and [[Cyril of Alexandria]]. In Job, it has the additional 400 half-verses from [[Theodotion]], which are not in the Old Latin and Sahidic versions.{{r|Metzger}} The text of the Old Testament was considered by critics, such as Hort and Cornill, to be substantially that which underlies Origen's [[Hexapla]] edition, completed by him at Caesarea and issued as an independent work (apart from the other versions with which Origen associated it) by [[Eusebius of Caesarea|Eusebius]] and [[Pamphilus of Caesarea|Pamphilus]].{{r|keny-hand|p=83}}

In the New Testament, the Greek text of the codex is considered a representative of the [[Alexandrian text-type]]. It has been found to agree very closely with the text of Bodmer {{Papyrus link|75}} in the Gospels of Luke and John. {{Papyrus link|75}} has been dated to the beginning of the 3rd century, and hence is at least 100 years older than the Codex Vaticanus itself. This is purported to demonstrate (by recourse to a postulated earlier exemplar from which both {{Papyrus link|75}} and B descend) that Vaticanus accurately reproduces an earlier text from these two biblical books, which reinforces the reputation the codex held amongst Biblical scholars. It also strongly suggests that it may have been copied in [[Egypt]].<ref>Calvin L. Porter, ''Papyrus Bodmer XV (P75) and the Text of Codex Vaticanus'', ''[[Journal of Biblical Literature|JBL]]'' 81 (1962), pp. 363–376.</ref> In the Pauline epistles there is a distinctly [[Western text-type|Western]] element.{{r|Metzger}} Textual critic [[Kurt Aland]] placed it in [[Categories of New Testament manuscripts#Category I|Category I]] of his New Testament manuscript classification system.{{r|Aland}} Category 1 manuscripts are described as "of a very special quality, i.e., manuscripts with a very high proportion of the early text, presumably the original text, which has not been preserved in its purity in any one manuscript."{{r|Aland|p=335}}