Codex Sinaiticus
The account of the Codex Sinaiticus that St Catherine’s Monastery publishes on its own website. It says that Tischendorf promised to return the manuscript and did not, and it rejects his story that monks were burning its leaves.
The page describes the manuscript and then tells its removal from the monastery’s side. Constantin von Tischendorf, it says, “managed to take” forty-three folios in 1844, and in 1859 asked to take the rest to Russia, promising to return it at the monastery’s first request; instead it was kept by the Russian government and sold to England in 1933. The page calls his claim that the codex was about to be burned a slander against which the monastery has always protested.
It is a present-day statement by one party, undated, and it is cited as the monastery’s own position.
Cited in
- 1844 to 1859, firm date