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Codex Sinaiticus : the story of the world's oldest Bible / by District of Columbia Parker. [print]

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: London : British Library ; 2010.; Peabody, Massachusetts : Hendrickson, (c)2010.Description: xi, 195 pages, 16. pages of plates : illustrations (some col) ; 25 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780712358033
  • 9781598565768
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • BS64.P238.P375 2010
  • BS64
Available additional physical forms:
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Contents:
The Christian book in the age of Constantine -- Making a Bible in the year 350 -- Setting to work -- The scribes and what they did -- The correctors and what they did -- The text of the Bible in Codex Sinaiticus -- Beyond the scriptorium -- 1844-1869 -- Beyond the monastery -- Codex Sinaiticus comes to town -- The virtual Codex Sinaiticus.
Subject: The story of how the Codex Sinaiticus was created and used in the ancient church; how it was preserved for centuries at the monastery of St. Catherine's, Mount Sinai; its subsequent history and how its pages came to be divided and dispersed; and how it has been compiled again and made accessible to a worldwide audience for the first time.--From publisher description
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Circulating Book (checkout times vary with patron status) Circulating Book (checkout times vary with patron status) G. Allen Fleece Library CIRCULATING COLLECTION Non-fiction BS64.S5P37 2010 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 31923001862404

The story of how the Codex Sinaiticus was created and used in the ancient church; how it was preserved for centuries at the monastery of St. Catherine's, Mount Sinai; its subsequent history and how its pages came to be divided and dispersed; and how it has been compiled again and made accessible to a worldwide audience for the first time.--From publisher description

Photograph of codex on endpapers.

Every book its destiny -- The Christian book in the age of Constantine -- Making a Bible in the year 350 -- Setting to work -- The scribes and what they did -- The correctors and what they did -- The text of the Bible in Codex Sinaiticus -- Beyond the scriptorium -- 1844-1869 -- Beyond the monastery -- Codex Sinaiticus comes to town -- The virtual Codex Sinaiticus.

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