It contains the
Diatessaron (in lieu of the
Gospels), the 23 remaining canonical books of the
New Testament, the
Epistle to the Laodiceans, and a copy of
Jerome's
Prologue to the Canonical Gospels. It represents the
Italian text-type. Its text is akin to that of
Codex Amiatinus. The harmonised gospel text is preceded by a listing of its sections, with a summary of their contents, which was copied unchanged from the Old Latin exemplar. From this it can be determined that the Old Latin source had lacked the
Genealogy of Jesus (which Victor inserted); but that the source had included the passage of
Jesus and the woman taken in adultery. The sequence of books follows the ordering: • Diatessaron •
Pauline epistles • Romans • 1–2 Corinthians • Galatians • Ephesians • Philippians • 1–2 Thessalonians • Colossians • Laodiceans • 1–2 Timothy • Titus • Philemon • Hebrews •
Acts of the Apostles •
Catholic epistles (usual order) •
Book of Apocalypse The section 1 Cor 14:34–35 is placed by the original scribe in the margin in an unusual order, verses 36–40 before 34–35, while the text on the page is the normal order. This section is marked by umlaut in
Codex Vaticanus. Several manuscripts of the Western text-type, placed section 1 Cor 14:34–35 after 1 Cor 14:40 (manuscripts:
Claromontanus,
Augiensis,
Boernerianus, itd, g). Also codex
88, which is not representative of the Western text, placed this section after 1 Cor 14:40. One manuscript of the Vulgate does the same (
Codex Reginensis). The 1 John text section omits the Comma Johanneum. However, the Vulgate Prologue to the Canonical Epistles includes a direct reference to the heavenly witnesses, with the Prologue written as a first-person epistle from Jerome to Eustochium. In this Prologue unfaithful translators are criticised for removal of the verse. The Prologue from about 1700 on had often been attacked as a late forgery, not by Jerome. At the time the earliest known extant Vulgate with the Prologue was about AD 800. The Prologue was noted to be in the Codex Fuldensis of AD 546 when the text was published by Ranke c. AD 1850. == History ==