TY  - BOOK
AU  - Parker,D.C.
TI  - Codex Sinaiticus: the story of the world's oldest bible 
SN  - 9780712358033 (British Library : hbk.)
AV  - BS64.S5 P37 2010
U1  - 220.4/8 22
PY  - 2010///
CY  - London, Peabody, Mass.
PB  - British Library, Hendrickson
KW  - Codex Sinaiticus (Biblical manuscript)
KW  - History
N1  - 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
N2  - 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
ER  -