Codex Sinaiticus

The Codex Sinaiticus is the first manuscript we have that covers the entire New Testaments. Unfortunately, the codex isn’t found en masse – but there is an interesting project that scholars are taking up which attempts to get the whole thing online!

I actually got to see parts of its whilst I was in England over the summer. It was fascinating to see the very legible print – as opposed to that difficult Gothic script of the Middle Ages – while I was there. 

The project is headed by the larger collaboration called the Digital Classicist:

Digital Classicist

The Codex Sinaiticus Project is an international collaboration to reunite the entire manuscript in digital form—text, high quality images, and metadata—and make it accessible to a global audience for the first time. Drawing on the expertise of leading scholars, conservators, and curators, the Project gives everyone the opportunity to connect directly with this famous artefact. This seminar will present the concept behind the digital edition of this manuscript.

 

Check it out!

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