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team of experts from the UK, Europe, Egypt and Russia is currently
digitising the parchment known as the Codex Sinaiticus, believed
originally to have been one of 50 copies of the scriptures
commissioned by Roman Emperor Constantine after he converted to
Christianity. The Bible, which is currently in the British Library
in London, dates from the 4th Century.
The Codex Sinaiticus contains the whole of the Christian Bible;
specifically, it has the oldest complete copy of the New Testament,
as well as the Greek Old Testament, known as the Septuagint, which
includes books now regarded as apocrypha.
It is named after the place it was written, the monastery of Saint
Catherine in Sinai, Egypt, set beneath the mountain where Moses is
said to have received the Ten Commandments.
In total the codex is now in four portions, the largest of which 347
of the 400 pages is that at the British Library. The rest are split
between Leipzig University Library, the National Library of Russia
in St Petersburg, and the monastery.
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