Found LocationSaint Catherine's Monastery, Sinai Peninsula, Egypt
Scribal Context & Details
It is one of the four great uncial codices and contains the oldest complete copy of the New Testament. Discovered by Constantin von Tischendorf in 1844, it remains one of the most important Greek texts for biblical scholarship.
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Codex Alexandrinus
2 of 302
Earliest Date~AD 400 (5th Century)
Current LocationBritish Library, London
Found LocationAlexandria, Egypt (traditional)
Scribal Context & Details
Codex Alexandrinus is one of the four Great uncial codices and among the earliest and most complete manuscripts of the Bible. It is the oldest manuscript to use larger letters to indicate new sections, and it was the first manuscript of great importance and antiquity to be extensively used by textual critics.
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Codex Ephraemi Rescriptus
3 of 304
Earliest Date~AD 425 (Mid 5th Century)
Current LocationBibliothèque nationale de France, Paris
Found LocationUnknown
Scribal Context & Details
It is a palimpsest where the original 5th-century biblical text was washed off and overwritten in the 12th century with treatises by Ephrem the Syrian. It is one of the four great uncials, and its underlying text was famously deciphered by Constantin von Tischendorf in the 1840s.
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