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http://www.medievalists.net/2017/08/medieval-gospel-commentary-lost-1500-years-now-translated-online/"The extraordinary find, a work written by a bishop in North Italy, Fortunatianus of Aquileia, dates back to the middle of the fourth century. The biblical text of the manuscript is of particular significance, as it predates the standard Latin version known as the Vulgate and provides new evidence about the earliest form of the Gospels in Latin, shedding new light on the early Church.Despite references to it in other ancient works, no copy was known to survive until a researcher from the University of Salzburg identified the commentary in an anonymous manuscript copied around the year 800 and held in Cologne Cathedral Library."Open-Access-edition:https://www.degruyter.com/viewbooktoc/product/469498"In October 2012, Lukas Dorfbauer encountered the anonymous gospel commentary which constitutes the majority of Codex 17 in Cologne Cathedral Library. Copied in the Rhineland in the first third of the ninth century, this parchment codex of 103 pages  boasts  a  fine  illuminated  title  page,  followed  by  two  pages  written  in  uncial script before the Caroline minuscule script which is used by the five principal copyists in the rest of the volume. The manuscript had been fully digitised and put online in  the  Codices  Electronici  Ecclesiae  Coloniensis  collection  in  2002,  and  was  also included  in  the  catalogue  of  Cologne  Cathedral  manuscripts  made  in  1995" (p. XII).