Two of the World's most famous books
By John Welford
@indexer (4852)
Leicester, England
August 22, 2019 5:39am CST
If you visit the British Library in London you can see - free of charge - a whole collection of important books and other documents. These are two of them.
On the left is the Codex Sinaiticus - a very early version on the Greek Bible that was found at Saint Catherine's monastery in Sinai, Egypt. It dates from around 350 AD.
On the right is Codex Alexandrinus, which dates from the early 5th century.
Four original Greek texts have survived that contain the whole of the Old and New Testaments - the others are the Codex Vaticanus and the Codex Ephraemi Rescriptus. Here you can see half of that number in a single display case!
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@yoalldudes (35028)
• Philippines
22 Aug 19
That is pretty remarkable. I read somewhere that the original unaltered texts of the bible is in a secret library in the Vatican.
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@indexer (4852)
• Leicester, England
22 Aug 19
There are no original unaltered texts - all manuscripts are copies of copies of copies, which means that nobody knows what the original texts were, because all copyists made mistakes and added extra bits.
@JudyEv (382542)
• Rockingham, Australia
22 Aug 19
That's amazing. I remember seeing the Book of Kells in Ireland. That was pretty incredible too.
@amitkokiladitya (171988)
• Agra, India
22 Aug 19
Thanks a lot for the information
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