The Development of the Canon of the New Testament

Catalogue inserted in Codex Claromontanus

In the 6th century codex Claromontanus (D), a Greek and Latin manuscript of the Pauline epistles, someone placed between Philemon and Hebrews a Latin list of the books of the Bible. Zahn and Harnack were of the opinion that the list had been draw up originally in Greek at Alexandria or its neighborhood ~300 CE. According to Jülicher the list belongs to the 4th century and is probably of western origin.

[An Old Testament list is followed by:]

Four Gospels:
Matthew	2600 lines
John	2000 lines
Mark	1600 lines
Luke	2900 lines
Epistles of Paul:
To the Romans	1040 lines
The First to the Corinthians	1060 lines
The Second to the Corinthians	70 (sic) lines
To the Galatians	350 lines
To the Ephesians	365 lines
[three lines seem to have fallen out here; Philippians, I Thessalonians and II Thessalonians are missing]
The First to Timothy	209 lines
The Second to Timothy	289 lines
To Titus	140 lines
To the Colossians	251 lines
To Philemon	50 lines
– The First to (sic) Peter	200 lines
The Second to (sic) Peter	140 lines
Of James	220
The First Epistle of John	220
The Second Epistle of John	20
The Third Epistle of John	20
The Epistle of Jude	60 lines
– Epistle of Barnabas	850 lines
The Revelation of John	1200
The Acts of the Apostles	2600
– The Shepherd	4000 lines
– The Acts of Paul	3650 lines
– The Apocalypse of Peter	270

The last four dashes identify works of doubtful or disputed canonicity. The dash before I Peter may be only paragraphus, or Greek paragraph mark, to suggest that I Peter and the items that follow are not part of the Pauline Epistles.