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P.Oxy. LXXXV 5478, Gregory-Aland P141, is a third-century Luke codex represented by two nonadjacent leaf fragments preserving scenes from Jesus’ childhood and resurrection appearances.
A separately cataloged Latin Gospel witness, VL 36, preserves a fragment of Luke known through prewar photographs and scholarly documentation and gives material evidence for the many-text history through which Scripture circulated in the Latin-speaking church.
Codex Guelferbytanus A (GA 024) is a distinct physical witness to the material transmission and reception of Scripture, identified by its own shelfmark, date, contents, and custodial history.
A separately cataloged Latin Gospel witness, VL 17, preserves surviving portions of the Gospels of Luke and Mark and gives material evidence for the many-text history through which Scripture circulated in the Latin-speaking church.
Related Greek parchment fragments in Berlin and Florence preserving Matthew 10 and Luke 22. Directly witnesses mission teaching in Matthew and the Gethsemane/arrest narrative in Luke at an early date.
Uncial 053: Luke 1–2 in a Three-Column Catena is a separately registered physical witness to the copying and reception of Luke 1:1–25; Luke 2:1–40, identified by its own GA number, shelfmark, date, layout, and custodial history.
Small third- or fourth-century Greek papyrus fragments from Oxyrhynchus preserve episodes resembling Gospel controversy and discipleship scenes without copying any canonical text continuously. They offer secure evidence for an otherwise unidentified Christian narrative, not for a newly recovered apostolic Gospel.
A parchment leaf found at Dura-Europos combines wording from all four canonical Passion narratives and was buried before the city's destruction in AD 256, though its identification as Tatian's Diatessaron is debated.
Codex Sangallensis 18 (GA 0130): Gospel Undertext beneath Latin is a separately registered physical witness to the copying and reception of Mark 1:31–45; Luke 1:20–31; Luke 2:24–48, identified by its own GA number, shelfmark, date, layout, and custodial history.
P75 preserves large portions of Luke and John in one Greek papyrus codex, including their direct transition, while its debated date and close but non-identical relationship with Vaticanus require careful rather than genealogically simple conclusions.
Forty-four surviving leaves of a Greek-Coptic Gospel codex now divided among London, Oxford, Paris, and Vienna and catalogued under several related GA numbers. Shows the Gospels transmitted bilingually in Greek and Coptic and preserves substantial portions of Luke and John.
A Roman triumphal relief made under Domitian depicts the Jerusalem Temple spoils carried in Titus's victory procession, preserving an ancient imperial image of the menorah and Rome's public memory of the Temple's destruction in AD 70.
Korazim's basalt synagogue, donor inscription, and so-called Seat of Moses document the durable Jewish communal life of a Galilean town named in the Gospels, though the visible building is later.
Codex Brixianus is a nearly complete sixth-century Old Latin Gospel book from Brescia, written in silver and gold on purple parchment and preserving a form of the Latin Gospels distinct from the standard Vulgate.
Codex Cyprius (GA 017) is a 9th century Greek parchment codex preserving the four Gospels, with canon tables and other paratext.
Codex Macedoniensis (GA 034) is a distinct physical witness to the material transmission and reception of Scripture, identified by its own shelfmark, date, contents, and custodial history.
Codex Usserianus Primus is a fragmentary early-seventh-century Irish Gospel book whose Old Latin text and distinctive half-uncial script document the reception of the Gospels in early medieval Ireland.
Silver and bronze coins dated by revolt years turned Temple imagery, festival plants, archaizing Hebrew, Jerusalem, Zion, freedom, and redemption into portable declarations during the war of AD 66-70.
The main drain beneath Jerusalem’s stepped street combined built and rock-cut sections over more than seven hundred exposed meters and preserves refuse, lamps, food remains, coins, and destruction-era evidence from the city’s final decades before AD 70.
The St Augustine Gospels (CCCC MS 286) is a distinct physical witness to the material transmission and reception of Scripture, identified by its own shelfmark, date, contents, and custodial history.