Codex Sinaiticus

Þæt Codex Sinaiticus (Bordrǽden: Lunden, Bryttisc Bibliohð, Add MS 43725), awriten mid siglum א‎ [Aleph] oþþe 01 (on Gregory-Aland swǽtnytta þæra Niwan Testamenti), δ 2 (on von Soden swǽtnytta þæra Niwan Testamenti), eac genemned Sinai Bibliohð, is án feorða-hundreda gēara Cristen handgewritu of Grēcisc Bibliohð, hæbbende þa heafdenum þæs Grēcisc Eald-testamenti, mid þam deuterocanonicalum bōcum, and þæra Grēcisc Niwan Testamenti, mid bǽðum Barnabas bredde and Herdogan Hermas midfoldum. Hit is awriten on uncia letrum on þǽm þurhgrædde. Hit is án of þǽm feower micelum uncia codices (þisse sindon handgewrit þa ǽr þurh þæt eall of bōtum Eald and Niwe Testamenti). Wið Codex Alexandrinus and Codex Vaticanus, hit is án of þǽm ærestan and mæst fulle handgewritum of þǽm Bibliohð, and hæbbe þæt ealdest fulle cyþþe of þǽm Niwan Testamenti. Hit is án histórisc gewinn, and þurh þæt weorc of gethōdoyde writ selfa (palaeography), hit hæfð beon gewiten to þǽm mid-feorðan hundreda.