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World Service,10 Feb 1995,13 mins

Codex Sinaiticus

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Examining the text of the Codex Sinaiticus, one of the most important hand-written copies of the Greek bible, written in the 4th Century, in uncial script. How did it get from the Near East of the 4th Century to the British Library?

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