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Constantin von Tischendorf rediscovered the Codex Sinaiticus, a 4th-century great uncial codex of the Bible in Greek, in Saint Catherine's Monastery, Egypt.
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Constantin von Tischendorf
German theologian and biblical scholar (1815–1874)
Lobegott Friedrich Constantin (von) Tischendorf was a German biblical scholar. In 1844, he discovered the world's oldest and most complete Bible dated to around the mid-4th century and called Codex Sinaiticus after Saint Catherine's Monastery at Mount Sinai.Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
Codex Sinaiticus
4th-century handwritten Bible copy in Greek
The Codex Sinaiticus, also called the Sinai Bible, is a fourth-century Christian manuscript of a Greek Bible, containing the majority of the Greek Old Testament, including the deuterocanonical books, and the Greek New Testament, with both the Epistle of Barnabas and the Shepherd…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
Great uncial codices
Four ancient, handwritten copies of the Bible in Greek
The great uncial codices or four great uncials are the only remaining uncial codices that contain the entire text of the Bible in Greek. They are the Codex Vaticanus in the Vatican Library, the Codex Sinaiticus and the Codex Alexandrinus in the British Library, and the Codex…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
Saint Catherine's Monastery
Greek Orthodox monastery in Sinai
Saint Catherine's Monastery, officially the Sacred Autonomous Royal Monastery of Saint Catherine of the Holy and God-Trodden Mount Sinai, is a Christian monastery located in the Sinai Peninsula of Egypt. Located at the foot of Mount Sinai, it was built between 548 and 565, and…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)