The Codex Sinaiticus Project, a collaborative digitization and scholarly presentation undertaken jointly by the British Library, Leipzig University Library, Saint Catherine's Monastery and the Russian National Library, is a primary institutional source documenting one of the two oldest surviving complete manuscripts of the Christian Bible in Greek. As a multi-institutional collaboration among the manuscript's actual current and historical custodians, it carries strong authority for the manuscript's physical description, digitized text and known provenance history, including the genuinely disputed circumstances of its nineteenth century removal from Saint Catherine's Monastery. The project's own presentation is careful to note that unresolved provenance dispute rather than settle it unilaterally in favor of any one participating institution's historical claim.
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The Codex Sinaiticus Project is a joint institutional record from the British Library, Leipzig University Library, Saint Catherine's Monastery and the Russian National Library, the manuscript's own current and historical custodians, the middle tier reflecting an authoritative custodial record rather than independent peer-reviewed scholarship. NotesThe Codex Sinaiticus Project's own site, maintained jointly by its four holding institutions, the British Library, Leipzig University Library, Saint Catherine's Monastery and the Russian National Library; a custodial and digitization record, not independent scholarly analysis.
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AuthorBritish Library, Leipzig University Library, Saint Catherine's Monastery and the Russian National Library
URLhttps://www.codexsinaiticus.org/
Source TypeArticle
Claims Backed By This Source (16 claims)
This source backs 16 claims across the atlas. As facts: 14 well-attested. Plus 2 entities citing it as a general reference with no single fact or relationship attached.
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- Sources, 6 claims: 6 well-attested.
- Textual Witnesses, 6 claims: 5 well-attested, 1 general references.
- Articles, 3 claims: 3 well-attested.
- Sacred Sites, 1 claims: 1 general references.
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