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Codex Sinaiticus (Gregory-Aland 01 or א; von Soden δ 2; Scrivener א): Bible in two volumes

Scope & Content:

Codex Sinaiticus (Gregory-Aland 01 or א; von Soden δ 2; Scrivener א): Bible in two volumes. Imperfect. Leaves are missing from the beginning of the manuscript (more than 33 quires), from the end, and from various points in the middle. Some of these missing portions still survive, principally the 43 noncontinuous folios of the Codex Friderico-Augustanus (Leipzig, Universitäts-Bibliothek, MS gr. 1). Other fragments are in the National Library of Russia in St Petersburg: MS gr. 2, MS gr. 259, MS gr. 843, and MS OLDP O 156. At the Monastery of St Catherine at Mt Sinai are eighteen further folios and fragments, which were discovered there in 1975.

Contains the Old Testament (Chronicles 9:27-11:22, Tobit 2:2-14:15, Judith 1:1-9:13, 13:9-16:25, 1 Maccabees, 4 Maccabees, Isaiah, Jeremiah 1:1-10:25, Joel, Obadiah, Jonah, Nahum, Habakkuk, Zephaniah, Haggai, Zechariah, Malachi, Psalms, Proverbs, Ecclesiastes, Song of Solomon, Wisdom, Ecclesiasticus, and Job), the New Testament (Matthew, Mark, Luke, John, Romans, 1 Corinthians, 2 Corinthians, Galatians, Ephesians, Philippians, Colossians, 1 Thessalonians, 2 Thessalonians, Hebrews, 1 Timothy, 2 Timothy, Titus, Philemon, Acts, James, 1 Peter, 2 Peter, 1 John, 2 John, 3 John, Jude, and Revelation), the Epistle of Barnabas, and the Shepherd (Pastor) of Hermas 1:1-27:6, 28:5-30:3. Incipit (f. 1r; Chronicles 9:27): 'τὸ πρωῒ ἀνύγειν τὰς θύρας τοῦ ἱεροῦ καὶ ἔξ αὐτῶν'. Folio 347 is damaged, with the half of the leaf containing the inner two columns of text lost (a fragment of this lost portion survives as National Library of Russia, MS gr. 843). Explicit (f. 347v; Shepherd, 30:3): 'διὰ τοῦτο φημὶ κ[ύρι]ε ἐξακριβάζομαι παρὰ σοῦ πάντα πρῶτον μέν'.

Includes numerous corrections, both in the hands of the original scribes and in those of later correctors. Superscriptions, subscriptions and running titles throughout. Eusebian numbers in the Gospels.

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Add MS 43725, ff 1r-199v : Codex Sinaiticus (Gregory-Aland 01 or א; von Soden δ 2; Scrivener א), volume 1: Old Testament
Add MS 43725, ff 200r-347v : Codex Sinaiticus (Gregory-Aland 01 or א; von Soden δ 2; Scrivener א), volume 2: New Testament

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2 parchment codices

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Greek, Ancient

Scripts:

Greek

Start Date:

0325

End Date:

0374

Date Range:

2nd quarter of the 4th century-3rd quarter of the 4th century

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Physical Characteristics:

Material: Parchment.

Dimensions: 380 x 345 mm.

Foliation: ff 347.

Collation: Gatherings normally of 8, numbered λε-Ϟγ, and with a later quire numeration λε-Ϟβ; written in 4 cols (50-54 mm), except Psalms-Job (2 cols, 115-120 mm). The ruling pattern for every leaf is provided on the Codex Sinaiticus website, http://www.codexsinaiticus.org.

Script: Uncial. Written by at least 3 and possibly four scribes (see Parker 2010, pp. 48-76, and Myshrall in Codex Sinaiticus 2015; also Milne and Skeat 1938, pp. 18-29, arguing for only 3 scribes).

Binding: Bound in 1935 by Douglas Cockerell in oak boards with white morocco spines, blind-tooled (see Cockerell 1936; Milne and Skeat 1938 pp.70-86).

Decoration: Coronis around some subscriptions (e.g. ff. 68r, 75v, 76r, etc.). Some use of red ink throughout, as in some superscriptions, rubrics in the Psalms, and Eusebian numbers.

Custodial History:

Origin: Eastern Mediterranean (Palestine?) (see Milne and Skeat 1938, pp. 66-69).

Provenance:

Caesarea in Palestine, 7th century: possibly present at the library there, according to two notes appended by the corrector C^Pamph. to 2 Esdras and Esther (in Leipzig, Universitäts-Bibliothek, MS. gr. 1), stating that he had collated the books 1 Kings-Esther with a manuscript which had been copied from the Hexapla of Origen by the Caesarean martyrs Pamphilus (d. 310) and Antoninus (d. 309) (see Lake and Lake 1922, pp. x-xii, and the doubts of Parker 2010, pp. 80-85).

Monastery of St Catherine on Mount Sinai: probably seen there by Vitaliano Donati (b. 1717, d. 1762), Italian natural philosopher, who visited the Monastery in 1761 and described in his diary a Bible that appears to have been Codex Sinaiticus (see Parker 2010, p. 120). Seen at the Monastery by Konstantin von Tischendorf (b. 1815, d. 1874), who, in 1844, acquired the portion known as the Codex Friderico-Augustanus (Leipzig, Universitäts-Bibliothek, MS. gr. 1) there and, in 1859, presented to Alexander II, Tsar of Russia, the bulk of the manuscript, the transfer being completed in 1869; further fragments were discovered at St Catherine's in 1975 (see Politis 1980, p. 7).

Imperial Public Library (now the National Library of Russia) at St Petersburg: held there until it was purchased from the Soviet government for the British Museum in December 1933, and incorporated, on completion of the purchase with the aid of H. M. Government and of a national subscription, the contributors to which included the Friends of the National Libraries, in May 1934.

A full account of the modern history of the Codex Sinaiticus can be found on the Codex Sinaiticus website [http://codexsinaiticus.org/en/codex/history.aspx].

Source of Acquisition:

Purchased from the Soviet government for the British Museum in December 1933, and incorporated, on completion of the purchase with the aid of H. M. Government and of a national subscription, the contributors to which included the Friends of the National Libraries, in May 1934.

Administrative Context:

Eastern Mediterranean (Palestine?).

Information About Copies:

Several facsimiles have been produced:

K. von Tischendorf, Bibliorum Codex Sinaiticus Petropolitanus, 4 vols, Leipzig 1862.

K. and H. Lake, Codex Sinaiticus Petropolitanus: The New Testament, the Epistle of Barnabus and the Shepherd of Hermas, Oxford 1911. (A copy is held by the Library as MS Facsimile 165/1.)

K. and H. Lake, Codex Sinaiticus Petropolitanus: et Friderico-augustanus Lipsiensis: The Old Testament, Preserved in the Public Library of Petrograd, in the Library of the Society of Ancient Literature in Petrograd, and in the Library of the University of Leipzig, Oxford 1922. (A copy is held by the Library as MS Facsimile 165/2.)

Codex Sinaiticus, Peabody MA/London 2010. (Contains images of all currently extant folios and fragments.)

Full digital coverage is available on [http://www.codexsinaiticus.org].

Publications:

Codex Friderico-Augustanus, ed. K. von Tischendorf, Leipzig 1846.

K. von Tischendorf, Monumenta Sacra Inedita, Nova Collectio, 9 vols, Leipzig 1855-70, II (1857).

K. von Tischendorf, Bibliorum Codex Sinaiticus Petropolitanus, 4 vols, Leipzig 1862.

F. H. A. Scrivener, A Full Collation of the Codex Sinaiticus with the Received Text of the New Testament, Cambridge 1864; 2nd edn 1867.

K. von Tischendorf, Mémoire sur la découverte et l'antiquité du Codex Sinaïticus, London 1865.

K. von Tischendorf, When were our Gospels written? An Argument by Constantine Tischendorf with a Narrative of the Discovery of the Sinaitic Manuscript. London 1866.

K. von Tischendorf, Appendix codicum celeberrimorum Sinaitici Vaticani Alexandrini, Leipzig 1867.

K. von Tischendorf, The New Testament: The Authorised English Version; With Introduction, and Various Readings from the Three Most Celebrated Manuscripts of the Original Greek Text, Leipzig 1869.

F. H. A. Scrivener, A Plain Introduction to the Criticism of the New Testament, 2 vols, 4th edn, London 1894, I, pp. 90-97.

V. Gardthausen, Katalog der griechischen Handschriften der Universitäts-Bibliothek zu Leipzig, Leipzig 1898, pp. xvii-xix, 1-3.

C. R. Gregory, Textkritik des Neuen Testamentes, 3 vols, Leipzig 1900-1909, I, pp. 18-29.

H. von Soden, Die Schriften des Neuen Testaments, in ihrer ältesten erreichbaren Textgestalt hergestellt auf Grund ihrer Textgeschichte, 4 vols, Berlin 1902-1910, I, p. 102.

V. N. Benešević, Catalogus codicum manuscriptorum graecorum qui in monasterio Sanctae Catharinae in Monte Sina asservantur, Vol I, St Petersburg 1911, pp. 639-642.

K. and H. Lake, Codex Sinaiticus Petropolitanus: The New Testament, the Epistle of Barnabus and the Shepherd of Hermas, Oxford 1911.

H. T. Anderson, The New Testament, translated from the Sinaitic Manuscript discovered by Constantine Tischendorf at Mount Sinai, Cincinnati 1918.

D. Cockerell, 'The Binding of the Codex Sinaiticus', The British Museum Quarterly 10 (1936) pp. 180-82.

L. Vaganay, 'La finale du quatrième évangile', Revue biblique 45 (1936) pp. 512-28.

H. J. M. Milne and T. C. Skeat, Scribes and Correctors of the Codex Sinaiticus, London 1938.

W. H. P. Hatch, The Principal Uncial Manuscripts of the New Testament, Chicago 1939, pls xv, xvi.

E. A. Lowe, 'The Oldest Omission Signs in Latin Manuscripts: Their Origin and Significance', in Miscellanea Giovanni Mercati, 6 vols, Studi e Testi, 121-26, Vatican City 1946, VI, pp. 1-44 (p. 11, pl. 1.3).

The Codex Sinaiticus and the Codex Alexandrinus, ed. H. J. M. Milne and T. C. Skeat, 2nd edn, London 1955, pp. 5-29.

Е. Э. Гранстрем, 'Каталог Гречнеских Руописей Пенингкадских Хранипищ: I. Рукописи IV-XI веков', Византйский Бременник 16 (1959) p. 220.

C. Tindall, Contributions to the Statistical Study of the Codex Sinaiticus, Edinburgh and London 1961.

I. Ševčenko, 'New Documents on Constantine Tischendorf and the Codex Sinaiticus', Scriptorium 18 (1964) pp. 55-80.

The British Museum Catalogue of Additions to the Manuscripts 1931-1935, London 1967, pp. 207-12.

G. Cavallo, Richerche sulla maiuscola biblica, Studi e testi di papirologia, 2, Florence 1967, pp. 56-64.

G. P. Fee, 'Codex Sinaiticus in the Gospel of John: A Contribution to Methodology in Establishing Textual Relationships', New Testament Studies 15 (1968-69) pp. 23-44.

K. Weitzmann, Illustrated Manuscripts at St. Catherine's Monastery on Mount Sinai, Collegeville, MN 1973, pp. 7-8.

I. A. Moir, 'Tischendorf and the Codex Sinaiticus', New Testament Studies 23 (1976) pp. 108-15.

T. S. Pattie, 'The Codex Sinaiticus', The British Library Journal 3 (1977) pp. 1-6.

L. Politis, 'Nouveaux manuscrits grecs découverts au Mont Sinaï: Rapport préliminaire', Scriptorium 34 (1980) pp. 5-17.

B. M. Metzger, Manuscripts of the Greek Bible: An Introduction to Greek Palaeography, Oxford 1981, pp. 76-79.

J. K. Elliott, Codex Sinaiticus and the Simonides Affair. An Examination of the Nineteenth Century Claim that Codex Sinaiticus was not an Ancient Manuscript (Ἀναλεκτά Βλαταδών 33), Thessaloniki 1982.

J. Bentley, Secrets of Mount Sinai. The Story of the World's Oldest Bible - Codex Sinaiticus, London 1985.

J. K. Elliott, A Bibliography of Greek New Testament Manuscripts, Cambridge 1989, pp. 29-32.

J. Irigoin, 'La Bible greque: le Codex Sinaiticus', in Mise en page et mise en texte du livre manuscrit, ed. H.-J. Martin and J. Vezin, Paris 1990, pp. 60-65.

P. Nikolopoulos, 'The Library', in Sinai: Treasures of the Monastery of Saint Catherine, ed. K. A. Manafis, Athens 1990, pp. 349-55.

K. Aland, Kurzgefasste Liste der griechischen Handschriften des neuen Testaments (Arbeiten zur neutestamentlichen Textforschung 1), Berlin 1994, p. 19.

T. S. Pattie, 'The Creation of the Great Codices', in The Bible as Book. The Manuscript Tradition, ed. J. L. Sharpe and K. Van Kampen, London 1998, pp. 61-72 (pp. 67-68).

T. C. Skeat, 'The Codex Sinaiticus, the Codex Vaticanus and Constantine', Journal of Theological Studies 50 (1999) pp. 583-625.

The New Finds of Sinai, Athens 1999.

T. C. Skeat, 'The Last Chapter in the History of the Codex Sinaiticus', Novum Testamentum 42 (2000) pp. 313-15.

J. J. Brogan, 'Another Look at Codex Sinaiticus', in The Bible as Book. The Transmission of the Greek Text, ed. S. McKendrick and O. O'Sullivan, London 2003, pp. 17-32.

A. V. Zakharova, 'Obzor materialov rossijskih arhivov o priobretenii Sinajskoj Biblij', in Vtorye chtenija pamiati professora N. F. Kaptereva (Moskva, 28-29 oktiabria 2004). Materialy. Moscow 2004, pp. 33-45.

A. C. Myshrall, 'Codex Sinaiticus, its Correctors, and the Caesarean Text of the Gospels', unpublished Ph.D. thesis, University of Birmingham 2005.

S. McKendrick and N. Pickwoad, In a Monastery Library. Preserving Codex Sinaiticus and the Greek Written Heritage, London 2006.

D. Jongkind, Scribal Habits of Codex Sinaiticus (Texts and Studies Third Series 5), Piscataway, NJ 2007.

A. V. Zakharova, 'История приобретения Синайской Библии Россией в свете новых документов из российских архивов', in Montfaucon. Études de plaéographie, de codicologie et de diplomatique. Moscow-St. Petersburg 2007, pp. 209-266. Translated into English as 'The History of the Acquisition of the Sinai Bible by the Russian Government in the Context of Recent Findings in Russian Archives', electronic publication, 2009, online at [http://www.nlr.ru/eng/exib/CodexSinaiticus/zah/].

E. Henschke, 'Digitising the Hand-Written Bible: The Codex Sinaiticus, its History and Modern Presentation', Libri. International Journal of Libraries and Information Services 57 (2007) pp. 45-51.

S. McKendrick and J. Garcés, 'The Codex Sinaiticus Project: 1. The Book and the Project', in Care and Conservation of Manuscripts 10: Proceedings of the Tenth International Seminar held at the University of Copenhagen 19th-20th October 2006, ed. G. Fellows-Jensen and P. Springborg, Copenhagen 2008, pp. 148-52.

J. Mumford, 'The Codex Sinaiticus Project: 2. Conservation Work', in Care and Conservation of Manuscripts 10: Proceedings of the Tenth International Seminar held at the University of Copenhagen 19th-20th October 2006, ed. G. Fellows-Jensen and P. Springborg, Copenhagen 2008, pp. 153-71.

C. Böttrich, 'Das Dossier des russichen Ministers Golovnin von 1892 zur Frage des Codex Sinaiticus', Scriptorium 63 (2009) pp. 287-326.

D. C. Parker, Codex Sinaiticus: The Story of the World's Oldest Bible, London 2010.

Синайский кодекс и памятники древней христианской письменности : традиции и инновации в современных исследованиях : труды Международной научной конференции "Синайский кодекс: рукопись в современном информационном пространстве", Санкт-Петербург, 12-13 ноября 2009 год/Codex Sinaiticus and Old Manuscripts of Early Christian Writing: Traditions and Innovations in Modern Research: Proceedings of the International Research Conference "Codex Sinaiticus: Manuscripts in the Digital Age", Saint-Petersbug, November 12-13, 2009, ed. E. V. Krushelnitskya, Z. L. Levshina, and I. L. Lynden, Saint Petersburg 2012.

P. Malik, 'The Earliest Corrections in Codex Sinaiticus: A Test Case from the Gospel of Mark', Bulletin of the American Society of Papyrologists 50 (2013) pp. 207–54.

Codex Sinaiticus: New Perspectives on the Ancient Biblical Manuscript, ed. S. McKendrick, D. C. Parker, A. Myshrall, and C. O'Hogan, London 2015.

P. Malik, 'The Corrections of Codex Sinaiticus and the Textual Transmission of Revelation: Josef Schmid Revisited.' New Testament Studies 61 (2015): 595–614.

P. Malik, 'The Earliest Corrections in Codex Sinaiticus: Further Evidence from the Apocalypse.' TC: A Journal of Biblical Textual Criticism 20 (2015): 1–12.

M. McNamara, The Bible and the Apocrypha in the Early Irish Church (A.D. 600-1200), Instrumenta Patristica et Mediaevalia, Research on the Inheritance of the Early and Medieval Christianity, 66 (Turnhout, Brepols, 2015), pp. 527–528, 530–531.

Codex Sinaiticus website, [http://www.codexsinaiticus.org]

Exhibitions:

British Library Treasures, (online), 27 February 2016-
Egypt: Faith after the Pharoahs, British Museum, London, 29 October 2015 - 7 February 2016
Greek Manuscripts, (online), 18 September 2016-

Material Type:

Archives and Manuscripts

Legal Status:

Not Public Record(s)

Names:

Cockerell, Douglas Bennett, bookbinder, 1870-1945
Monastery of St Catherine, Mount Sinai, Mid 6th century-
National Library of Russia, St Petersburg, 1795-

Related Material:

The following portions of the manuscript exist elsewhere.

(1) The codex Friderico-Augustanus, MS gr. 1 in the Universitäts-Bibliothek, Leipzig. Contains 1 Chronicles xi.22-xix.17; 2 Esdras ix.9-xxiii.31 (end); Esther; Tobit i.1-ii.2; Jeremiah x.25-lii.34 (end); Lamentations i.1-ii.20. Published by Tischendorf (1846), who discovered it in the Mount Sinai Monastery in 1844. See also Gardthausen 1898, pp. xvii-xix, 1-3.

(2) Two fragments, taken from bindings of manuscripts in the Mount Sinai Monastery by Porphyrius Uspensky in 1845, and containing a few verses from Genesis xxiii-xxiv and Numbers v-vii respectively. Published by Tischendorf (1867). Now MS gr. 259 in the National Library of Russia, St Petersburg, cf. Гранстрем 1959, p. 220.

(3) Fragment of Genesis xxiv, found by Tischendorf in the Mount Sinai Monastery in 1853 and published by him (Tischendorf 1857). Now MS gr. 2 in the National Library of Russia, St Petersburg, cf. Гранстрем 1959, p. 220.

(4) Fragment, taken from a binding, of the leaf of Judith (Judith xi.13-xiii.9) missing from the Codex Sinaiticus (between ff. 13 and 14). Identified in the library of the Society of Ancient Literature, St Petersburg, and published by Benešević 1911, pp. 639-642. Now MS OLDP O 156 in the National Library of Russia, St Petersburg, cf. Гранстрем 1959, p. 220.

(5) Fragment of the last (mutilated) leaf of the Codex Sinaiticus, containing portions of Hermas, Pastor, Mandates II.7-III.2, IV.iii.4-6 (see above). This fragment was not with the remainder of the manuscript when it was delivered to the British Museum, and is still preserved, as MS gr. 843, in the National Library of Russia, St Petersburg, cf. Гранстрем 1959, p. 220.

(6) At least eighteen leaves in their entirety or in fragments, containing portions of Genesis, Leviticus, Numbers, Deuteronomy, Joshua, Judges, 1 Chronicles, Hermas, Pastor, Similitudes, and seventeen unidentified fragments, remain at the Monastery of St Catherine at Mt Sinai, having been discovered in 1975 (the "New Finds"), cf. the reference guide to the facsimile, Codex Sinaiticus 2010, pp. 9-10.

Related Archive Descriptions:

Add MS 89722
MS Facsimile 165/1
MS Facsimile 165/2