Editing Codex Sinaiticus (section)

{{short description|4th-century handwritten Bible copy in Greek}}
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{{New Testament manuscript infobox
| form = Uncial
| number = '''01'''
| image = [[File:Sinaiticus text.jpg|220px|border]]
| isize = 
| caption = [[Book of Esther]]
| name = Sinaiticus
| sign = <math>\aleph</math>
| text = [[Greek Old Testament]] and Greek New Testament
| script = [[Greek language|Greek]]
| date = c. 325-360
| found = [[Sinai peninsula|Sinai]], 1844
| now at = [[British Library]], [[Leipzig University Library]], [[Saint Catherine's Monastery]], [[Russian National Library]]
| cite = Lake, K. (1911). ''Codex Sinaiticus Petropolitanus'', Oxford.
| size = {{convert|38.1|xx|34.5|cm|in|1|abbr=on}}
| type = [[Alexandrian text-type]]
| cat = I
| hand =
| note = very close to {{Papyrus link|66}}
}}
The '''Codex Sinaiticus''' ({{IPAc-en|s|ɪ|ˈ|n|aɪ|t|ɪ|k|ə|s}};<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p00dy1gc | title=The Codex Sinaiticus…the world's oldest surviving bible |date=2011-02-07 |access-date=2025-02-21 |website=bbc.co.uk}}</ref> [[Shelfmark]]: London, [[British Library]], Add MS 43725), also called the '''Sinai Bible''', is a fourth-century Christian [[manuscript]] of a Greek Bible, containing the majority of the [[Septuagint|Greek Old Testament]], including the [[deuterocanonical books]], and the Greek [[New Testament]], with both the [[Epistle of Barnabas]] and the [[Shepherd of Hermas]] included. It is designated by the [[siglum]] {{larger|{{script|Hebr|א}}}} &#91;Aleph&#93; or '''01''' in the [[Biblical manuscript#Gregory-Aland|Gregory-Aland]] numbering of New Testament manuscripts, and δ 2 in the [[Biblical manuscript#Von Soden|von Soden]] numbering of New Testament manuscripts.{{r|Aland}} It is written in [[uncial]] letters on [[parchment]]. It is one of the four [[great uncial codices]] (these being manuscripts which originally contained the whole of both the Old and New Testaments). Along with [[Codex Alexandrinus]] and [[Codex Vaticanus]], it is one of the earliest and most complete manuscripts of the [[Bible]], and contains the oldest complete copy of the [[New Testament]].<ref>{{Cite web | title=Codex Sinaiticus - Home | url=https://www.codexsinaiticus.org/en/ | access-date=2022-04-14 | website=www.codexsinaiticus.org }}</ref> It is a historical treasure,<ref>{{Cite book | first1=Mursi | last1=Saad El Din | first2=Ayman | last2=Taher | first3=Luciano | last3=Romano | title=Sinai: The Site & the History | page=101 | year=1998 | publisher=New York University | location=New York | isbn=0-8147-2203-2}}</ref> and using the study of comparative writing styles ([[palaeography]]), it has been dated to the mid-fourth century.{{r|Metzger-Palaeo|pp=77-78}}

Biblical scholarship considers Codex Sinaiticus to be one of the most important Greek texts of the New Testament, along with [[Codex Vaticanus]]. Until German Biblical scholar (and manuscript hunter) [[Constantin von Tischendorf]]'s discovery of Codex Sinaiticus in 1844, the Greek text of Codex Vaticanus was unrivalled.<ref name="Scrivener">{{Cite book | first=Frederick Henry Ambrose | last=Scrivener | author-link=Frederick Henry Ambrose Scrivener | title=Six Lectures on the Text of the New Testament and the Ancient Manuscripts | year=1875 | publisher=George Bell & Sons | location=London | isbn=978-1-4097-0826-1 | url=https://archive.org/details/sixlecturesontex0000scri_f4v9/page/n5/mode/2up}}</ref>{{rp|26}} Since its discovery, study of Codex Sinaiticus has proven to be useful to scholars for [[textual criticism|critical studies]] of the biblical text.

Codex Sinaiticus came to the attention of scholars in the 19th century at [[Saint Catherine's Monastery]] in the [[Sinai Peninsula]], with further material discovered in the 20th and 21st centuries. Although parts of the [[codex]] are scattered across four libraries around the world, most of the manuscript is held today in the [[British Library]] in London, where it is on public display.<ref name="INTF">{{Cite web | url=http://intf.uni-muenster.de/vmr/NTVMR/ListeHandschriften.php?ObjID=20001 | title=Liste Handschriften | publisher=Institute for New Testament Textual Research | access-date=16 March 2013 | location=Münster }}</ref>{{r|Aland|pp=107–108}}