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.

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 ...

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 sale price surpassed Leonardo da Vinci’s Codex Leicester manuscript, which Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates bought for $30.8m (including fees) at Christie's in 1994. In November 2021, Sotheby ...

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.

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 ...

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.