Scholars recover 42 lost pages of rare Codex H New Testament manuscript

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An international team of scholars has successfully recovered 42 lost pages of one of the most important New Testament manuscripts, known as Codex H.

The codex, a sixth-century copy of St Paul's epistles, had been partially lost after being disassembled in the 13th century at the Great Lavra Monastery, located on Mount Athos in northern Greece.

Its pages were repurposed as binding material and flyleaves in other books, causing fragments of the manuscript to become scattered across libraries in various European countries.

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