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British Library to Digitize World’s Oldest BibleExperts from the four institutions that own parts of what scholars consider the oldest extant version of both the Old and New Testaments in one volume launched a project March 11 to create a complete copy of the Codex Sinaiticus online. The project—which involves the British Library, the University of Leipzig in Germany, the National Library of Russia in St. Petersburg, and the Monastery of St. Catherine’s in Egypt—aims to conserve, digitize, and reinterpret the 4th-century manuscript and make it available to a worldwide audience. Because of the Bible’s age and fragility, none of the owning institutions now allow access to it.The British Library estimates that the project will take four years to complete and cost £680,000 ($1.3 million U.S.). The participating institutions hope that it will serve as a model for future collaborations on other manuscripts. In addition to a digital version, a high-quality, case-bound, color facsimile of the entire codex is envisioned, accompanied by a scholarly volume of commentaries. Posted March 18, 2005. |
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