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Word: sinaiticus (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1934-1934
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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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Codex for the Classes | 8/13/1934 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Codex Paid For | 5/7/1934 | See Source »

Soon after the British Museum bought from the Soviet Government its famed Codex Sinaiticus (TIME, Jan. 1), a campaign was begun to raise half the cost ($511,250) by public subscription. The Codex's vellum pages of Old and New Testament in Greek were placed on view in the British Museum. Peering at them an old lady cackled: "Have they ever been translated...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Stolen Codex? | 2/5/1934 | See Source »

...spent a week in the Greek Monastery of St. Catherine at the foot of Mt. Sinai, on the traditional site of the burning bush (not "atop Mount St. Catherine'': Mount St. Catherine is the adjoining peak); and there learned the facts concerning the Codex Sinaiticus. These are at variance with the conventional story, which you summarize in your issue...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jan. 15, 1934 | 1/15/1934 | See Source »

...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 it to him last year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Codex to London | 1/1/1934 | See Source »

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