A Cyclopaedia of Female Biography/Thecla

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THECLA,

A noble lady of Alexandria, in Egypt, who transcribed the whole of the Bible into the Greek, from the original Septuagint copy then in the Alexandrian library; and this ancient copy is still preserved, and is the celebrated Alexandrian manuscript, so often appealed to by commentators. It was presented to Charles the First by the Patriarch of Constantinople, in 1628.