Word: sinaiticus
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...menu for the coronation banquet of Henry IV (1399); the manuscript of Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland, inscribed as "a Christmas gift to a dear child in memory of a summer day." There is also a fine collection of early Bibles, including the 4th century Codex Sinaiticus, for which the museum paid Soviet Russia ?100,000 (then about...
...Codex Sinaiticus is equally old and its New Testament is complete. Missing from the New Testament of the Codex Vaticanus' is a portion of Hebrews beginning at 9:25, the pastoral Epistles, the Epistle to Philemon and the Apocalypse...
Biblical scholars periodically get excited when, in the sands of Egypt or the Near East, someone turns up what is called "the world's oldest Biblical text." Famed for its comparative completeness is Codex Sinaiticus of the 4th Century, sold by Soviet-Russia to England (TIME, Jan. 1, 1934 et seq.). For a time the oldest known gospel fragments were some 3rd Century papyri owned by Alfred Chester Beatty, onetime U. S. millionaire, now a British subject. Year ago the British Museum acquired some unidentified 2nd Century Greek papyri paralleling St. John (TIME, Feb. 4). Last December...
Strictly speaking the British Museum bought the famed Codex Sinaiticus from the Soviet Government (TIME, Jan. 1 et seq.) and His Majesty's Government merely agreed to pay such part of the £100,000 as could not be raised by public subscription. The debate last week was provoked by announcement that the Ex chequer will have...
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 ($511,250) purchase price the Government would do the rest (TIME, Jan. 1 et seq.). Laborites in Parliament raised a mighty squawk, when they heard that the Codex had already arrived in London and the money paid over. It looked as though the Government was saddled with the expense, whether or no. But last week the Laborites were mollified when the Archbishop of Canterbury announced that the public had contributed its full...