German scholar Constantin von Tischendorf rediscovers the…
February 1859 CE
The codex is an Alexandrian text-type manuscript.
Scholars considers the Codex Sinaiticus to be one of the best Greek texts of the New Testament, along with the Codex Vaticanus.
Until Constantin von Tischendorf's discovery of the Sinaiticus text, the Codex Vaticanus had been unrivaled.