Jane Raisch

The Antiquarian Object in Print: The Codex Alexandrinus and Cross-Confessional Hellenism in Seventeenth-Century England

Focusing particularly on the scholarly editions of the Codex Alexandrinus (an important early manuscript of the Septuagint) printed in Oxford during the 1630s by Patrick Young, this article argues that the often-derided antiquarian “reverence” for textual artifacts became a way to express otherwise controversial idea...