who discovered it?
Italian traveller, Vitaliano Donati
Codex Sinaiticus
Italian traveller, Vitaliano Donati,
what is the name of the oldest bible in the world Codex Sinaiticus in which language was it written? Greek when was it written? Mid-4th century what does it include? The whole codex consists, with a few exceptions, of quires of eight leaves, a format popular throughout the Middle Ages. where is the book now? British Library in London is it accessible to public? Yes, it is on public display when was the book discovered? In 1761
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Codex Sinaiticus [SEP] Discovery
The Codex may have been seen in 1761 by the Italian traveller, Vitaliano Donati, when he visited the Saint Catherine's Monastery at Sinai in Egypt. His diary was published in 1879, in which was written: In questo monastero ritrovai una quantità grandissima di codici membranacei... ve ne sono alcuni che mi sembravano anteriori al settimo secolo, ed in ispecie una Bibbia in membrane bellissime, assai grandi, sottili, e quadre, scritta in carattere rotondo e belissimo; conservano poi in chiesa un Evangelistario greco in caractere d'oro rotondo, che dovrebbe pur essere assai antico. "In this monastery I found a great number of parchment codices ...