Codex Sinaiticus : the story of the world's oldest bible /
D.C. Parker.
- London : Peabody, Mass. : British Library ; Hendrickson, c2010.
- xi, 195 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. (some col) ; 25 cm.
Photograph of codex on endpapers.
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
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.
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.