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more leaves from the Sinaitic Manuscript are uncovered

May 26, 1975

a fire at the monastery of Saint Catherine reveales a part of the library that was previously hidden by a roof collapse some two hundred years earlier. among the four thousand manuscripts found we...

Sinaitic Manuscript brought to the British Museum

Dec 27, 1933

The Sinaitic manuscript was purchased from the Russian government by the British museum for 100,000 pounds which, at that time, would have been around $500,000. it remains in the British Library t...

vatican manuscript is finally published

1889

with the church's continued policy of non-cooperation the roman authorities felt the need to intervene. in 1889 a "complete photographic facsimile" was published finally making its contents readil...

Westcoot-Hort text part 2 published

1881

the "English Revised Version of the New Testament" was translated largely, though not exclusively, from the westcott-hort greek reconstruction. this new publication brought a more accurate text to...

Westcott-Hort text part 1 published

May 12, 1881

two cambridge scholars, Brook Foss Westcott and Fenton John Anthony published the first of two volumes entitled "The New Testament in the Original Greek". it is a reconstructed text based on the p...

death of Constantin von Tischendorf

Dec 7, 1874

i've got his birthday in this time line so it would only be right to add his death as well. unfortunitly, the only wikipedia says is "He died in Leipzig." which, while nice to know, it would be ni...

Sinaitic Manuscript published

1862

having gained the permission from the Abbot of the Monastery of St. Catherine, Tischendorf takes the manuscript to cairo egypt where he, and two assistants, copy it in two months. under the sponso...

Tischendorf rediscovers the Sinaitic Manuscript, again

1859

after his first trip to the monastery of St. Catherine, Constantin von Tischendorf made several attempts to sway the monks to give him the manuscript. when he returned in 1853, however, no one kne...

Lindisfarne Gospels rebound

1852

its not as fancy a cover, but it is done based on decoration in Eadfrith's pages.

Tischendorf publishes part of the Sinaitic Manuscript

1846

Tischendorf takes the leaves he was able to gain from the monastery and returns home. he publishes the find without revealing where he gained the text, hoping to return in the future and claim the...

Old Testament portion of the Codex Ephraem published

1845

Tischendorf publishes his copy of the old testament from the codex ephraem.

Constantin von Tischendorf rediscovers the Sinaitic Manuscript

May 1844

having been given full run of the monastery's library, Tischendorf rummaged through a basket of old manuscripts the monastery was planning to burn due to their being "mouldered by time". thus he l...

the New Testament portion of the Codex Ephraem published

1843

Tischendorf publishes his copy of the new testament portion of the codex ephraem. source: how we got the Bible (p57) by neil r lightfoot. isbn: 978-0-8010-1252-5

Tischendorf comes to Paris to study the Codex of Ephraem

1840

while many scholars had attempted to discover the text hidden beneath the sermons of Ephraem without success, Tischendorf arrived to make his own attempt. in three years time his keen eyesight and...

Birthday of Constantin von Tischendorf

Jan 18, 1815

Tischendorf is a German Bible scholar who worked on many of the oldest copies of the scriptures including the Codex Ephraemi Rescriptus, Codex Vaticanus, and discovered the Codex Sinaiticus. He wa...