German scholar Constantin von Tischendorf rediscovers the…

February 1859 CE

German scholar Constantin von Tischendorf rediscovers the Codex Sinaiticus, a fourth-century  manuscript of the Greek Bible written in uncial letters on parchment, in Saint Catherine's Monastery on the foot of Mount Sinai, in the Khedivate of Egypt on February 4, 1859.

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.

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