Vulgate: Codex Cavensis

Early translation · vg cav · 9th century

A Latin Bible written in Spain in the 9th century by a scribe named Danila, in Visigothic script, and kept since the Middle Ages at the abbey of La Cava near Salerno, Italy. It is one of the oldest Vulgate manuscripts with 1 John 5:7.

Contents

The whole Bible.

Where It Is Kept

Abbey of the Holy Trinity, Cava de’ Tirreni, Italy.

Cited For

  • 1 John 5:7–8 “in heaven, the Father, the Word, and the Holy Ghost: and these three are one …”

Early translations show the Greek their translators had, sometimes older than any Greek manuscript of the passage that survives. Their abbreviations name the language: it (Old Latin), vg (Vulgate), syr (Syriac), cop (Coptic), arm (Armenian), goth (Gothic), slav (Slavonic).