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A Biblical scholar of mathematical bent, Victor succeeded St. Germanus of Capua as bishop of that city in 541. He wrote on the paschal cycle, on the dimensions of Noah's ark, and on the hour of the Crucifixion, as well as commentaries in catena form on the Old Testament and on the New. And he commissioned one of the principal early manuscripts of the Vulgate, its _codex Fuldensis_ (Hochschul- und Landesbibliothek Fulda, Codex Bonifatianus 1 [a.k.a. Victor-Codex]). The oldest surviving manuscript from the Latin West to offer a gospel harmony, it contains the New Testament and its Gospels are in an originally Old Latin version of Tatian's _Diatessaron_ altered, on Victor's instructions, to show the Vulgate text.
Victor's death on 2. April 554 is recorded in his epitaph (_CIL_ 10. 4503). Today is his day of commemoration in the Roman Martyrology.
A page of Hochschul- und Landesbibliothek Fulda, Codex Bonifatianus 1, showing Matthew 3:16 - 4:6:
http://tinyurl.com/zca4qmy
A digitisation of the entire manuscript starts here:
http://fuldig.hs-fulda.de/viewer/resolver?urn=urn:nbn:de:hebis:66:fuldig-2624927
The latter's thumbnail gallery:
http://fuldig.hs-fulda.de/viewer/!thumbs/PPN325289808/1/
It is thought that St. Boniface brought this manuscript to Fulda.
Best,
John Dillon
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