THE CODEX ARRIVES
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weLl preserved THREE THOUSAND PERSONS SEEK AN EARLY VIEW • GENEROUS CONTRIBUTIONS
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Rec. Dec. 28, 8.15 p.m. London, Dec. 27. The Codex Sinaiticus, within a red and gold enamelled box, arrived at the British Museum this morning wrappqd in brown paper and cotton wool. Dr. Bell, keeper of manuscripts at the museum, spent two hours testing its authenticity, after which he installed it in the entrance hall where a aueuo rapidly formed. Three thousand five hundred persons inspected the Codex, 80 per cent placing a contribution, sometimes a treasury note, in the box alongside. The visitors generally were amazed at the wonderful preservation and clearness of the manuscript. The Codex was purchased by thq British Museum frorn the Soviet Republic for £100,000. The Codex was written in Greek and is one of the most important manuscripts in the world. Fortythree leaves of it were discovered in 1844 by the German biblical scholar Dr. Tischendorf in a rubbish baslcet in the monastery of St. Catherine on Mount Sinai, and were presented to the Leipzig library. In 1853 Dr. Tischendorf returned to Mount Sinai and was shown additional manuscripts which were recognised as the main bulk of that formerly obtained, and which were sent to the Tsar Alexander.
The Codex consists of a very large portion of the Old Testament — a translation frorn the Hebrew into the Greek Septuagint — although some books are fragmentary. It includes also the complete New Testament, with the Epistle of Barnabas and the treatise known as "the Shepherd of Hermas," which was so popular in the Early Church and was nearly included in the canon of Scripture. The Codex dates from the second half of the fourth century. With the Codex Vaticanus at Rome it constitutes one of the two earliest of the great biblical manuscripts. The thiyd is the Codex Alexandrinus, dating from the second half of the fifth century, which is already in the British Museum.
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Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 3, Issue 726, 29 December 1933, Page 5
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328THE CODEX ARRIVES Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 3, Issue 726, 29 December 1933, Page 5
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