In Manhattan last week Bibliophile Abraham Simon Wolf Rosenbach said that $511,250 for the Codex Sinaiticus was the largest sum ever paid for a book or manuscript, that the U. S. S. R. had offered ...

The Codex was discovered at the monastery in 1844 by the German biblical scholar and archaeologist Constantin von Tischendorf (1815-74), who brought sections of it back to Europe on three separate ...

Codex Sinaiticus, the world's oldest Bible, goes online. Almost 1700 years after scribes in the Holy Land first created it from vellum, one of the world’s oldest Bibles this week makes its debut ...