Codex Sinaiticus

Item date: 4th century
(this is an approximate date)
Grant Value: 2150
Item cost pre-decimal: 100,000
Item date acquired: 1933
Item institution: British Library
Town/City: London

Illustrated as Plate I of AR; one of the worlds oldest surviving Bibles, may have been made for the Emperor Constantine; described in separate pamphlet issued with AR. Add MS 43725

Item Provenance
St Catherines Monastery, Mount Sinai; Russian Government
The Codex Sinaiticus, FNL grant to British Library 1933. Image by kind permission of the British Library
The Codex Sinaiticus, FNL grant to British Library 1933. Image by kind permission of the British Library