Codex Sinaiticus Petropolitanus — The New Testament
TL;DR — The 1911 photographic facsimile of the Sinaiticus New Testament, shot in St Petersburg in 1908.
⬇ Download the archived copy — kept here so the document survives its source going dark. Public domain by age (pre-1929).
A facsimile made from negatives taken at St Petersburg by Kirsopp Lake and his wife in the summer of 1908, published 1911.
Codex Sinaiticus is a fourth-century Greek Bible and one of the two most important manuscript witnesses to the New Testament text. This is the photographic edition that put it in front of scholars who could not travel to it — the reproduction technology being, at the time, the enabling act.
296 pages. A primary source for textual criticism, and an artifact of how scholarship was distributed before digitisation.
Where this came from
296 pages. A copy is archived locally against link rot; the header links the original source.