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TM 62315 / LDAB 3478 Record to be adopted by: you?

Stable URI (with TM ID): www.trismegistos.org/text/62315

also known as Codex Sinaiticus; Gregory-Aland א; Gregory-Aland Aleph; Gregory-Aland 01; 01; Sinaiticus; Rahlfs S; S; Codex Friderico-Augustanus

previously also TM 69016 (joined)

TM Gallery info The Codex Sinaiticus (TM 62315) is probably the most famous (almost) complete ancient manuscript of the Bible in Greek. It dates from the 4th century. The story of the discovery of the manuscript by Constantin von Tischendorf in St. Catherine's Monastery in Sinai and the later peripeties reads like a novel, with episodes of leaves or even the entire codex ready to be thrown away. How much of all this is true, is hard to ascertain. The complicated provenance history explains why the manuscript is now partly in Leipzig, St. Petersburg, and the monastery itself. The main part, however, is in the British Library, because it was acquired from the Soviet Union with money raised by a public subscription in 1933.

Metadata

Date: mid 4th century AD: AD 325 - 375

Provenance: Kaisareia ? - Israel (PalestinaThe region ca. 3rd cent. BC - IudaeaThe Roman provincia or regio ca. 2nd cent. AD) [written]

Language/script: Greek (paleography: biblical majuscule)

Material: parchment

Book form: codex (347 fol. London + 67 fol. elsewhere); columns per page: 4; number of lines per page: 48

Content (beta!): hexaplaric notes (AD06); with running title above the page

Authors / works: Testamentum vetus (Septuaginta), Testamentum vetus completum (direct attestation)
Testamentum novum (Greek), Testamentum novum completum (direct attestation)
Hermas, Pastor: Visiones;Similitudines 01-04; Similitudines 06, 07, 09; with title (direct attestation)
Barnabas, Epistula (direct attestation)

Culture & genre: literature — prose + poetry, bible (religion: christian)

Recto/Verso: Ro/Vo

Note: pandect; old LDAB 10287

More info: DCLPDigital Corpus of Literary Papyri => 14624 links in TM, NT.VMRNew Testament Virtual Manuscript Room => 326 links in TM, WikipediaWikipedia => 949 links in TM, otherother [2]

Publications

Codex sinaiticus. Facsimile edition (2010) [default]

∙Praktika tes Akademias Athenon 82 (2007), p. 255-266 (Damianos - 2007)

∙Rahlfs / Fraenkel, Verzeichnis der griechischen Handschriften des Alten Testaments S (p. 190 & 201-206 & 324-325 & 330-332 & 359-361) descr. (Rahlfs, Alfred / Fraenkel, Detlef - 2004)

∙Harlfinger (ed.), Rinascimento virtuale. Digitale Palimpsestforschung p. 116 no. OLDP O 156 descr. (Gerd, Lora A. - 2002)

∙The British Library. Summary catalogue of Greek manuscripts 1 p. 259-260 no. Add. 43725 (Pattie, T. S. / McKendrick, S. - 1999)

∙Nikolopoulos, Ta nea euremata tou Sina p. 141 no. 1 descr. (Nikolopoulos, Panagiotis G. - 1998)

∙Bizantijskij vremennik 16 (1959), p. 220 no. 2-3 descr. [in Russian] (Granstrem, Eugenia E. - 1959)

∙Rahlfs / Fraenkel, Verzeichnis der griechischen Handschriften des Alten Testaments S (p. 190, 201-206, 324-325, 330-332, 359-361) descr. (Rahlfs, Alfred / Fraenkel, Detlef - 2004) (= catalogue only)

Photo: facsimile edition by Kirsopp Lake (1911 and 1922); J. Vogels, Codicum Novi Testamenti Specimina, Bonn 1929, pl. 4; W.H.P. Hatch, The principal uncial manuscripts of the New Testament, Chicago 1939, pl. 15-16; G. Cavallo, Ricerche sulla maiuscola biblica (1967), pl.36-38; P.Nicolopoulos, Ta nea euremata tou Sina, 1998, pl. p.23 and pl.48; H.-J. Martin – J. Vezin, Mise en page et mise en texte du livre manuscrit, 1990, p. 60-63; Praktika tês Akadêmias Athênôn 82 (2007)

Content studies: D.C. Parker, Codex sinaiticus: the story of the world oldest bible, London 2010

Script & book studies: provenance: T. C. Skeat, JTS 1999, p. 583-603; D. Jongkind, Scribal habits of Codex Sinaiticus, 2007 (Texts and Studies III.4); A. Carlini - M. Bardini, Comunicazioni dell' Istituto Papirologico G. Vitelli 9 (2011), p. 91-92; S. McKendrick, Codex Sinaiticus: new perspectives o the ancient biblical manuscript, London 2015; P. Malik, BASP 50 (2013), p. 207-254 and A Journal of Biblical textual criticism 20 (2015), p. 1-12 [on scribal corrections];

Collections

→ Leipzig, Universität Codex Friderico-Augustanus gr. 1
+→ London, British Library Add MS 43725
+→ Sinai, Monastery of St Catharina Sinaiticus MG 1
+→ St Petersburg, Russian National Library Gr. 2 + Gr. 843 + Oct. L. D. P. O 156
+→ St Petersburg, Society for ancient literature Oct 156

∙St Petersburg, Russian National Library Gr. 259 (previous)

formerly Sinai, St. Catharina (monastery)

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