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Friday, January 15, 2016
The makers of Codex Sinaiticus
THE BRITISH MUSEUM BLOG: The makers of Codex Sinaiticus. Cillian O’Hogan, Research Fellow, University of Waterloo, formerly Curator of Classical and Byzantine Studies, British Library. This post contains some good information about the artisans and scribes responsible for the production of this manuscript. Background to the post is here and links, reminding us that Sinaiticus preserves about half of the Old Testament as well as the complete New Testament and some other odds and ends.