History of Codex Sinaiticus
The account of how the Codex Sinaiticus came to be divided, agreed by the four institutions that hold its parts. It states what the documents show for 1844 to 1975 and says where the four still do not agree.
The four holders of the manuscript signed a partnership in March 2005 to conserve, photograph and publish it, and undertook to commission a historical narrative acceptable to all of them. This text is the result. Its opening paragraph says that the events since 1844 are not fully known, that they are open to widely different interpretations, and that the four institutions “have not come to a full accord” over the recent history; they offer the text as a common framework and a basis for dialogue.
It summarises documents, among them the receipt Constantin von Tischendorf signed in 1859 and the act of donation of 1869, and it sets out the disputed points without deciding them. It is a record agreed by the interested parties together. See Tischendorf and the Codex Sinaiticus.
Cited in
- 1844 to 1859, firm date