Codex Sinaiticus Info

Contents: most of the OT, all of the NT, plus Epistle of Barnabas, and Shepherd of Hermes

Siglum: א (or 01 in Gregory-Aland numbering system)

Link: https://codexsinaiticus.org/en/

Date: 4th century CE

Wikipedia article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Codex_Sinaiticus

General Information:

  • mostly located in the British Library (London), but small portions are also located in the Leipzig University Library (Leipzig, Germany), Saint Catherine’s Monastery (Sinai Peninsula, Egypt), and the Russian National Library (St. Petersburg, Russia)
  • written in Uncial letters on vellum parchment
  • discovered in 1844 by Constantin von Tischendorf at Saint Catherine’s Monastery
  • VIDEO: NT textual critic Dan Wallace describes Tischendorf and the discovery of Codex Sinaiticus