The Bible
Out of context: Reply #18
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OK so it looks like this only applies to the New Testament. The Septuagint and other Old Testament manuscripts existed hundreds of years before. So we are only dealing with New Testament writings here.
For starters, this is not the earliest Biblical manuscript, it is merely an early collection of Biblical books that together make up a "Bible". The earliest manuscripts, which were copied in Rome and Jerusalem and pre-date this Codex by a couple hundred years, were books such as the four commonly known Gospels, as well as the letters of Paul, Peter and a few other apostles. If there are contradictions between those letters (which were not canonized into a complete Bible, or collection of books, until the council of Nicaea in 323), then it is the fault of the scribes who compiled and wrote the Codex.