From 24 Hour Museum: International partnership to digitise world's oldest known Bible.
An international project to create a digital copy of the oldest known Bible in the world was launched at the British Library on March 11 2005.
The Codex Sinaiticus, written in Greek by hand, dates back to the mid-fourth century and is considered to be the most important Biblical manuscript in existence.
Named after the Monastery of St Catherine's in Sinai, Egypt the manuscript was split up during the 19th century and parts of it are now held at the British Library, the University of Leipzig in Germany and the National Library of Russia, as well as St Catherine’s itself.
Experts from the four institutions have now joined together to reunite this ancient treasure in virtual form, using innovative technology to make it accessible to a global audience. [continue]
Related:
Codex Sinaiticus - Wikipedia
Codex Sinaiticus - Catholic Encyclopedia
World’s oldest Bible goes global: Historic international digitisation project announced - British Library