AN appeal to the public for the amount necessary to acquire the “Codex Sinaiticus” for the British Museum could not fail to meet with a generous response, especially when backed by the offer ...

Codex Sinaiticus consists of 346½ leaves, of which 147½ comprise the New Testament. Its pages originally measured 15 inches by 13½ inches and usually carry four columns per page.

When the British Government acquired the Codex Sinaiticus, famed Fourth Century Bible manuscript, from the Soviet Government, it announced that if the public contributed half the £100,000 ...

The Codex Sinaiticus, also dating from the fourth century and representing the same form of text as the preceding. It was discovered in 1844 in the Monastery of St. Catherine on Mt. Sinai, and is ...

In Manhattan last week Bibliophile Abraham Simon Wolf Rosenbach said that $511,250 for the Codex Sinaiticus was the largest sum ever paid for a book or manuscript, that the U. S. S. R. had offered ...

Nikolas Sarris spotted a previously unseen section of the Codex Sinaiticus, which dates from about AD350, as he was trawling through photographs of manuscripts in the library of St Catherine's ...

The codex was among several lots to be auctioned from Dr Schøyen's collection. Another item, an ancient manuscript known as the Codex Sinaiticus Rescriptus , sold for £1.25m.

The codex was among several lots to be auctioned from Dr Schøyen's collection. Another item, an ancient manuscript known as the Codex Sinaiticus Rescriptus , external , sold for £1.25m.