BIBLIOGRAPHY TO EARLY BYZANTINE PANDECT BIBLES (4TH-5TH C.)
LOCATIONS OF THE CODEX REMAINS □ London, British Library, Add. 43725 (rebound in 2 vols.: Testamentum Vetus, Testamentum Novum). (see cat. McKendrick/Pattie). □ Leipzig, Universitäts-bibliothek, Graec. 1. (43 ff. see cat. Gardthausen). □ St. Petersburg, Rossijskaja Nacional'naja biblioteka (RNB), Ф. 906, gr. 2, Cat. Nr. 2 [fragment Gn is from the same folio as the fragment below gr. 259] (see cat. Granstrem, Nr. 2, cf. Fraenkel, p. 324- 325). Ф. 906, gr. 259, Cat. Nr. 2 [ fragment 1 Gn, fragment 2-3 Num] (see cat. Granstrem, Nr. 2, cf. Fraenkel, p. 330-331). Ф. 906, gr. 843, Cat. Nr. 2 [fragment Hermas] (see cat. Granstrem, Nr. 2, cf. Fraenkel, p. 331). Ф. 536. Оп. 1, Sobr. Obščectva Ljubitelej Drevnej Pis'mennosti Oct. 156 [1 fragment Judith] (see cat. Granstrem 3, cf. Fraenkel, p. 331-332). □ Sinai, Monastery of St. Catherine, NE. MG 1. (12 leaves, 14 fragments) (see cat. Damianos/Nikolopoulos).
DIGITAL EDITION OF THE CODEX - London, British Library: Online Gallery: Codex Sinaiticus [Extracts in digital scroll form]: http://www.bl.uk/turning-the-pages/?id=b00f9a37-422c-4542-bfbd-b97bf3ce7d50&type=book. - Codex Sinaiticus Project. The digitised facsimile of all dislocated parts of the codex (OT & NT), with diplomatic rendering, is online since 2009: http://codexsinaiticus.org/en/.
FACSIMILE EDITION OF THE CODEX - H. and K. Lake, Codex Sinaiticus Petropolitanus: the New Testament, the Epistle of Barnabas and the Shepherd of Hermas, preserved in the Imperial Library of St. Petersburg : now reproduced in facsimile from photographs, with a description and introduction to the history of the Codex by K. Lake, Oxford, 1911. - H. and K. Lake, Codex Sinaiticus Petropolitanus et Friderico-Augustanus Lipsiensis : the Old Testament preserved in the Public Library of Petrograd, in the library of the Society of Ancient Literature in Petrograd, and in the library of the University of Leipzig: now reproduced in facsimile from photographs, with a description and introduction to the history of the Codex by K. Lake, Oxford, 1922.
SEMI-FACSIMILE EDITION OF THE CODEX IN PRINTED BOOKFORM (WOODCARVED CHARACTERS) C. von Tischendorf, Bibliorum codex Sinaiticus Petropolitanus, 4 vols., St. Petersburg, 1862. [repr. Hildesheim, 1969] Vol. I: Prolegomena. Commentarius. Tabulae. Vol. II-III: Veteris Testamentis. Pars prior – pars posterior. Vol. IV: Novum Testamentum cum Barnaba et Pastore.
PRINTED EDITION OF PART OF THE CODEX (FIRST DISCOVERED OT PORTIONS) C. von Tischendorf, Codex Friderico-Augustanus sive fragmenta V. T. E codice graeco omnium qui in Europa supersunt facile antiquissimo [...], Leipzig, 1846.
CATALOGUES (SINAITICUS) K. Aland (M. Welte, B. Koster , K. Junack), Kurzgefasste Liste der griechischen Handschriften des Neuen Testaments. Zweite, neubearbeite und ergänzte auflage, (Arbeiten zur neutestamentlichen Textforschung herausgegeben vom Institut für neutestamentliche Textforschung an der Westfälischen Wilhelms- Universität Münster/Westfalen, 1), Berlin, 1994, p. A. Damianos, P. Nikolopoulos, B. Peltikoglou, A. Sophronios, Τὰ νέα εὑρήματα τοῦ Σινᾶ, Athêna, Ἱερὰ Μονὴ καὶ Ἀρχιεπισκοπὴ Ὑπουργεῖο Πολιτισμοῦ – ἵδρυμα Ὅρους Σινᾶ, 1998, MS 1, [ΝΕ, ΧΕΙΡΟΓΡΑΦΟΙ ΚΩΔΙΚΕΣ: ΜΕΓΑΛΟΓΡΑΜΜΑΤΟΥ ΓΡΑΦΗ], p. 141 and Pl. D. Fraenkel, Verzeichnis der griechischen Handschriften des Alten Testaments von Alfred Rahlfs. Die Überlieferung bis zum VIII Jahrhundert, Bd. 1, 1, (Septuaginta Supplement), Göttingen, 2004, p. 190 [Leipzig part OT], pp. 201-206 [London part OT only ], p. 324-325, p. 330- 332 [St. Petersburg fragments], pp. 359-360.
V. Gardthausen, Catalogus codicum mss. Bibliothecae universitatis Lipsiensis. Katalog der Handschriften der Universitäts-Bibliothek zu Leipzig. III: Katalog der griechischen Handschriften, Leipzig, 1898, pp. 1-3. [Graec. 1 = Codex Friderico-Augustanus]. C. R. Gregory, Textkritik des Neusen Testaments, vols. I-III, 1900-1909. K. Granstrem, ‘Katalog Grečeskich rukopisej Leningradeskich chrainlišč, in Vizantiskij Vremennik, 16-32 (1959-1971). L. Politis, ‘Nouveaux manuscripts grecs découverts au Mont Sinaï. Rapport préliminaire’, in Scriptorium, 34 (1980), 5-17 [pl. 1-9]. S. McKendrick, T. Pattie, The British Library. Summary Catalogue of Greek Manuscripts, London, 1999, pp. 259-260 [Add. 43725]. A. Rahlfs, Verzeichnis der griechischen Handschriften des Alten Testaments für das Septuaginta Unternehmen, in Nachrichten der koeniglichen Gesellschaft der Wissenschaften zu Göttingen, Philolologisch Historische Klasse, (Beiheft), Berlin, 1914, pp. 226-229 [Codex Sinaiticus, formerly St.-Petersburg, Kaiserliche öffentliche Bibl. Gr. 259, since 1933 in London, British Library] F. H. A. Scrivener (rev. ed. E. Miller), A Plain Introduction to the Criticism of the New Testament for the Use of Biblical Students, 4th ed., 2 Vols., London, 1894. H. B. Swete (rev. by R. R. Ottley), An Introduction to the Old Testament in Greek, Peabody, Mass., 1914 [1989], pp. 129-131.
SPECIFIC STUDIES OF THE CODEX V. N. Beneševič, Les manuscrits grecs du Mont Sinai et le monde savant de l’Europe depuis le XVIIe siècle jusqu’ à 1927, (Texte und Forschungen Zur Byzantinisch-neugriechischen Philologie; Nr. 21), Athens, 1937. W. M. De Bruin, ‘Interpreting Delimiters: The Complexity of text Delimitation in Four Major Septuagint Manuscripts’, in Studies in Scriptural Unit Division, ed. by M. C. A. Korpel,, J. M. Oesch, Assen, 2002, pp. 66-89. G. Cavallo, Ricerche sulla maiuscola biblica, (Studi e testi di papirologia editi dall’ Istituto papirologico ‘G. Vitelli’ dell’ Università di Firenze, 2), 2 vols., Florence, 1967. D. Cockerell, ‘The Binding of the Codex Sinaiticus’, in British Museum Quaterly, 10 (1935-1936), pp. 180-182 [plate]. J. K. ELLIOTT, A Bibliography of Greek New Testament Manuscripts, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1989. D. Jongkind, Scribal Habits of Codex Sinaiticus, (Texts and Studies Third Series 5), Piscataway, Gorgias, 2007. P. Malik, ‘The Earliest Corrections in Codex Sinaiticus: A Test Case From the Gospel of Mark’, in Bulletin of the American Society of Papyrologists, 50 (2013), pp. 207-54. S. McKendrick, O. A. O’Sullivan (eds.), The Bible as Book. The Transmission of the Greek Text, London, 2003. B. M. Metzger, B.M., Manuscripts of the Greek Bible. An Introduction to Greek Palaeography, New York and Oxford, 1981.
H. J. M. Milne, T. C. Skeat, Scribes and Correctors of the Codex Sinaiticus, including Contributions by Douglas Cockerell, London, 1938. H. J. M. Milne, T. C. Skeat, The Codex Sinaiticus and the Codex Alexandrinus, 2nd edn, London: British Museum, 1955. T. N. Mitchell, ‘Codex Sinaiticus as a Window into Early Christian Worship’, in Eleutheria: A Graduate Student Journal, 3.1 (2014), art. 2. [http://digitalcommons.liberty.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1073&context=eleu]. A. C. Myshrall, ‘Codex Sinaiticus, its Correctors, and the Caesarean Text of the Gospels’, (unpublished Ph. D. Thesis), University of Birmingham, 2005. D. C. Parker, Codex Sinaiticus : the story of the world’s oldest Bible, London and Peabody, MA, 2010. THOMAS S. PATTIE, 'The Creation of the Great Codices', in The Bible as Book: The Manuscript Tradition, ed. by John L. Sharpe III and Kimberly Van Kampen, London: British Library, pp. 61-72 (pp. 69-70). F. H. A. Scrivener, A Full Collation of the Codex Sinaiticus with the Received text of the New Testament, Cambridge, 1864. C. von Tischendorf, Die Sinaibibel : ihre Entdeckung, Herausgabe und Erwerbung, Leipzig, 1871.