It contains the Euthalian Apparatus to the Catholic and Pauline epistles. The Latin text of the Gospels is a representative of the Western text-type in Itala recension, and has a strong admixture of Old Latin elements. The rest of the New Testament presents a very good Vulgate text; in Revelation "without question the best" surviving witness. The Order of books in New Testament: Gospels, Acts, Catholic epistles, Apocalypse, and Pauline epistles.
Old Testament
It contains also some books of the Old Testament and Apocrypha. The Stuttgart Vulgate cites it as G in the New and Old Testaments and as S in the appendix. It is one of only three exemplars of the Vetus Latina version of 1 Esdras, the others being Codex Colbertinus and Vercelli Archivio Capitolare codex XXII. Sangermanensis, however, only witnesses to the first four chapters, since it ends at 5:3.
It was an important exemplar in the textual history of 2 Esdras and, indeed, in all studies of textual criticism. In Second Esdras, chapter 7, verse 35, the majority of surviving Latin manuscripts read "... et justitiae vigilabunt, et injustitiae non dormibunt. primus Abraham propter Sodomitas et Moyses...", creating an awkward transition which, in the King James Version, reads: In 1865, Johann Gildemeister, later Professor of Oriental Languages at the University of Bonn, discovered that dormibunt was the last word of one leaf of the Codex Sangermanensis and primus the beginning word on the next leaf - but that one leaf which had once been between them had been cut out of the Codex. It would appear that the vast majority of Latin manuscripts had derived, more or less in a line of descent, from the Sangermanensis text after it had been mutilated. Prof. Gildemeister "drew the indisputable and highly important conclusion that all manuscripts of which do not contain that passage were ultimately derived from the Codex Sangermanensis." This lacuna propagated into print in early editions of the Bible such as the Clementine Vulgate and the King James Version. These "missing verses" were not available in print until Robert L. Bensly published the Latin text from the Codex Colbertinus in 1875 and, after Bensly's death in 1893, Cambridge published his critical edition of the whole Latin text of 4 Ezra in 1895, and it is this Latin text that is used in the Stuttgart edition of the Latin Vulgate. Bensly's text was also the basis for the translation which was included in the English Revised Version of the Bible, the Apocrypha being printed in 1894. There, in the 1894 Revised Version, this passage read: This restoration of the text from other Latin manuscripts is confirmed by other ancient versions in Syriac, Ethiopic, Arabic and Armenian. It is theorized that the page was cut out from the Codex Sangermanensis because of its very discouraging account of the hideous fate awaiting most people and its statement that the prayers of others on their behalf would be unavailing.
In it has addition: et cum baptizetur lumen ingens circumfulsit de aqua, ita ut timerent omnes qui advenerant a. In it has addition: dicentes vae vobis quae facta sunt hodiae propter peccata nostra. adpropinquauit enim desolatio hierusalem. In Matthew 8:13 it has additional text Et conuersus centurio in domum suam eadem hora inuenit puerum sanum corresponding to the Greek: και υποστρεψας ο εκατονταρχος εις τον οικον αυτου εν αυτη τη ωρα ευρεν τον παιδα υγιαινοντα — Codex Sinaiticus, C,, Θ,, f1,, syrh.
