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Word: sinaiticus (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Knick Knackatory | 9/21/1953 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, may 21, 1951 | 5/21/1951 | See Source »

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