Steven Avery
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Johann David Michaelis (1717-1791) said no:
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Complutensian Polyglot and Vaticanus
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Despite his error of opposing the authenticity of the heavenly witnesses, Michaelis is often superb in his scholarship.Introduction to the New Testament, Volume 2, Part 2 (1823 - translated from German edition c. 1780)
By Johann David Michaelis
https://books.google.com/books?id=eTA-AAAAYAAJ&pg=PA818
347. I have collated in several chapters of St. Matthew all the extrafts which Birch has given from this manuscript alone, with the text of the Complutensian edition, and have found the difference to be such as to warrant the conclusion, that it was not used by the editors of that edition.
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The preceding comparison affords an absolute demonstration that the Codex Vaticanus 1209. was not once consulted in this part of the Greek Testament by the Complutensian editors, for I have omitted not a single reading that is peculiar to this manuscript, yet not one of them is found in the Complutensian edition. Now as this manuscript is of the highest antiquity, and of the greatest authority, it is incredible, if the Complutensian editors had it really in their hands, that they should have totally neglected it in three whole chapters immediately following each other ; and we have reason to conclude, that if Vatican manuscripts were sent to them, this was not in the number. To obviate the objection which might be made on the supposition that the Codex Vaticanus 1209. might have arrived after a part of the Greek Testament was already printed, I have collated the last chapter of St. John ; but there the difference is still greater than at the beginning, for in that chapter alone Birch has quoted not less than twenty-eight readings from this manuscript, yet not one of them is to be discovered in the Complutensian edition.
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Titan, A Monthly Magazine (1859)
The Vatican Manuscript
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Whether the Vatican Codex was employed by the Complutensian editors is far from certain, although they boast of having had the use of some manuscripts from the Apostolic Library at Rome, and those no common ones, but vetustissima simul et emendatissima. Vercellone gives good ground for believing that it was in the Papal Library so far back as x.v. 1475 ... It is curious, however, and worthy of consideration, that the Codex catalogued in 1475,1484, and 1533, as present in the library, does not appear in the catalogue of 1518. Where was it at this date? It is quite certain that the Complutensian editors did not follow its readings ; their silent supercession of its suggestions, if it came into their hands, being so far condemnatory of its text,