Bifolio (sheet) from the Gospels and Acts, third century AD, Egypt. Bifolio from the Gospel of Luke from a codex containing the Four Gospels and Acts, written in Greek with ink on papyrus. This manuscript is the earliest undeniable example of a four-gospel codex and 30 of the original 112
leaves survive. The Gospels here were probably ordered according to the ‘Western’ sequence: Matthew, John, Luke, Mark. The oldest surviving codex containing the four canonical Gospels is open for all to see, Ruadhán Jones hears Given that Christianity is two millennia old, it is not surprising that documents from close to the time of its inception are hard to come by. How fortunate we are, then, to have ancient Biblical manuscripts dating…
