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Beneshevich went on three occasions to the monastery (1907, 1908, 1911) but does not tell when or from which book these were recovered. These leaves were also acquired for St. Petersburg, where they remain.<ref>Бенешевич Владимир Николаевич, "Памятники Синая археологические и палеографические", Вып. 2, Sankt Petersburg, 1912; V. N. Beneshevich, "Catalogus Codicum Manuscriptorum Graecorum qui in Monasterio Sanctae Catherinae in Monte Sina Asservantur" St. Petersburg (1911).</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.katapi.org.uk/BibleMSS/Sinaiticus.htm |title=Katapi.org.uk |publisher=Katapi.org.uk |access-date=4 February 2010}}</ref> [[File:Russian National Library building.jpg|thumb|A two-thirds portion of the codex was held in the National Library of Russia in [[St. Petersburg]] from 1859 until 1933]] For many decades, the Codex was preserved in the [[Russian National Library]]. In 1933, the [[Soviet Union]] sold the codex to the [[British Museum]] (after 1973 [[British Library]]) for £100,000 raised by public subscription (worth £{{Formatprice|{{Inflation|UK|100000|1933|r=-5}}}} in {{CURRENTYEAR}}).<ref name="metz-ehrman">{{Cite book | last1=Metzger | first1=Bruce Maning | last2=Ehrman | first2=Bart D. | title=The Text of the New Testament: Its Transmission, Corruption, and Restoration | edition=4th | publisher=Oxford University Press | location=New York; Oxford | year=2005 | url=https://archive.org/details/TheTextOfNewTestament4thEdit/mode/2up }}</ref>{{rp|64}} After coming to Britain it was examined by Skeat and Milne using an [[ultra-violet]] lamp.<ref>{{Cite book | first=Theodore Cressy | last=Skeat | editor=James Keith Elliott | chapter=A four years work on the Codex Sinaiticus: Significant discoveries in reconditioned manuscripts | title=The collected biblical writings of T. C. Skeat | page=9 | year=2004 | publisher=Brill | location=London | isbn=9004139206 | chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=td_OLXo4RvkC&pg=3}}</ref> In May 1975, during restoration work, the monks of Saint Catherine's Monastery discovered a room beneath the St. George Chapel which contained many parchment fragments. [[Kurt Aland]] and his team from the [[Institute for New Testament Textual Research]] were the first scholars who were invited to analyse, examine and photograph these new fragments of the New Testament in 1982.<ref>Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, "Die Funde der Mönche vom Sinai" (Engl.: "The findings of the monks from the Sinai"), 5 November 1983, No. 109, page 10</ref> Among these fragments were twelve complete leaves from the ''Sinaiticus'', eleven leaves of the [[Pentateuch]] and one leaf of the [[The Shepherd of Hermas|Shepherd of Hermas]].{{r|Skeat-lastchap}} Together with these leaves 67 Greek Manuscripts of New Testament have been found (uncials [[Uncial 0278|0278]] – [[Uncial 0296|0296]] and some minuscules).<ref>[http://www-user.uni-bremen.de/~wie/texte/Sinaiticus-75.html Codex Sinaiticus finds 1975] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080629091431/http://www-user.uni-bremen.de/~wie/texte/Sinaiticus-75.html |date=29 June 2008 }} with images</ref> In June 2005, a team of experts from the United Kingdom, Europe, Egypt, Russia and United States undertook a joint project to produce a new digital edition of the manuscript (involving all four holding libraries), and a series of other studies was announced.<ref>[http://www.bl.uk/news/2005/pressrelease20050311.html World's oldest Bible goes global: Historic international digitisation project announced] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100115042305/http://www.bl.uk/news/2005/pressrelease20050311.html |date=15 January 2010 }}, British Library: Press Room</ref><ref>[http://www.christiantoday.com/article/british.library.heads.project.in.digitalising.the.worlds.oldest.bible/2338.htm British Library Heads Project in Digitalising the World’s Oldest Bible] Christianity Today, 15 March 2005</ref><ref>{{Cite book | editor-first=Ulrich Johannes | editor-last=Schneider | title=Codex Sinaiticus: Geschichte und Erschließung der "Sinai-Bibel" | page=42 | year=2007 | publisher=Universitätsbibliothek Leipzig | location=Leipzig | isbn=978-3-934178-72-4 }}</ref> This will include the use of [[hyperspectral imaging]] to photograph the manuscripts to look for hidden information such as erased or faded text.<ref>[http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/4739369.stm Oldest known Bible to go online]. ''BBC.com''. 31 August 2005. Retrieved 8 June 2006.</ref> This is to be done in cooperation with the British Library.<ref>Henschke, E. (2007). "Digitizing the Hand-Written Bible: The Codex Sinaiticus, its History and Modern Presentation", ''Libri'', vol. '''57''', pp. 45–51.</ref> More than one quarter of the manuscript was made publicly available at [https://web.archive.org/web/20080818061315/http://www.codex-sinaiticus.net/en/ The Codex Sinaiticus Website] on 24 July 2008. On 6 July 2009, 800 more pages of the manuscript were made available, showing over half of the entire text,<ref>[http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/in_depth/8135415.stm ''Historical Bible pages put online''] BBC News</ref> although the entire text was intended to be shown by that date.<ref>{{cite press release |title=The world's oldest Bible goes online |date=21 July 2008 |url=http://www.codexsinaiticus.org/en/project/article.aspx?newsid=15 |access-date=24 July 2008}}</ref> The complete document is now available online in digital form and available for scholarly study. The online version has a fully transcribed set of [[digital page]]s, including amendments to the text, and two images of each page, with both standard lighting and raked lighting to highlight the texture of the parchment.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20090706/oldest_bible_090706/20090706?hub=TopStories |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090707122714/http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20090706/oldest_bible_090706/20090706?hub=TopStories |url-status=dead |archive-date=7 July 2009 |title=ctv news story |publisher=Ctv.ca |date=6 July 2009 |access-date=4 February 2010}}</ref> Prior to 1 September 2009, the [[University of the Arts London]] PhD student, Nikolas Sarris, discovered the previously unseen fragment of the Codex in the library of Saint Catherine's Monastery. It contains the text of Book of Joshua 1:10.<ref>"[https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/africa/fragment-from-worlds-oldest-bible-found-hidden-in-egyptian-monastery-1780274.html Fragment from world's oldest Bible found hidden in Egyptian monastery]". [[The Independent]], 2 Sep 2009.</ref>{{r|Sarris}} Summary: Please note that all contributions to Christianpedia may be edited, altered, or removed by other contributors. If you do not want your writing to be edited mercilessly, then do not submit it here. You are also promising us that you wrote this yourself, or copied it from a public domain or similar free resource (see Christianpedia:Copyrights for details). Do not submit copyrighted work without permission! Cancel Editing help (opens in new window) Discuss this page