Codex Sinaiticus available for perusal on the Web

The surviving pages of the world's oldest Christian Bible have been reunited digitally. The early work known as the Codex Sinaiticus has been housed in four separate locations across the world for more than 150 years. It comprises just over 400 large leaves of prepared animal skin, each of which measures 15 inches by 13.5 inches (380 millimeters by 345 millimeters). It is the oldest book that contains a complete New Testament and is only missing parts of the Old Testament and the Apocrypha.
The 4th-century book, written in Greek, has been digitally reunited in a project involving groups from Britain, Germany, Russia and Egypt, which each possessed parts of the 1,600-year-old manuscript.
They worked together to publish new research into the history of the Codex and transcribed 650,000 words over a four-year period.

The only other Bible that rivals Codex Sinaiticus in age is the Codex Vaticanus, which was written around the same time but lacks parts of the New Testament.

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Codex Sinaiticus

The Codex Sinaiticus, the oldest known Bibletext, handwritten well over 1600 years ago can be found on the internet. The manuscript contains the Christian Bible in Greek, including the oldest complete copy of the New Testament. Its heavily corrected text is of outstanding importance for the history of the Bible and the manuscript – the oldest substantial book to survive Antiquity – is of supreme importance for the history of the book. [Find out more about Codex Sinaiticus.]
Only the Codex Vaticanus saved at the Vatican is from around the same period.