A Literal Translation of the New Testament from the Text of the Vatican Manuscript

An early English translation deliberately founded on the Vatican manuscript rather than the Textus Receptus, the printed Greek text that had underpinned the Authorised Version and most English Bibles before it. Its scope is the New Testament, rendered from the Greek, with the text of Codex Vaticanus — the fourth-century manuscript held in the Vatican Library — as then published serving as its base. The translation philosophy is literal and manuscript-specific, and the work belongs to the category of a fresh translation made directly from a manuscript edition rather than a revision of an existing English version. Its distinctive interest is chiefly historical: it stands within the period in which biblical textual criticism was moving away from the received text and toward the ancient codices, a shift that would later shape the major revised and critical editions of the New Testament.