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 ...

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 ...

The oldest known book in a private collection just sold for a price worthy of its claim to fame. The Crosby-Schøyen Codex hammered down for an eye-popping £3.1 million, or $3.9 million, during a ...

A long-lost Biblical passage, buried for nearly 1,500 years, has surfaced through the lens of ultraviolet technology. The rediscovery bridges ancient scripture and modern science in a stunning reveal.

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 ...

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 ...

Christie's London presents Manuscript Masterpieces from The Schøyen Collection on 6/11/2024 . View all auction details, and browse Christie's London lots on artnet.

The small manuscript fragment, ... Syriac translation was written at least a century before the oldest Greek manuscripts that have survived, including the Codex Sinaiticus.

Last year the Codex Sassoon, a Hebrew Bible more than 1,000 years old, became the most valuable manuscript sold at auction when it went for $38.1 million at Sotheby’s in New York, confirming New ...