Before parting with the Codex, Tischendorf made a thorough study of it, first at Cairo, and in Russia, and. published in 1862 a magnificent facsimile edition, in four volumes, from type made for the. purpose, all. expenses being strayed by the 'Tear For tie this Gatton was' the stand elon "patti Woiy oom and Photographed edition to which Prof irsopp Lake prepaved a fuesimil
Take wrote an introduction giving] ful, account of the history of the Codex.
This manuscript, now known as the Codex Sinaitigun, fx the most complet and one of the ost one ut of New Testament manuscripts histones, Te -may" be said for the i motion of veadar, that the word codes originally the trunk of a tree: jater on it came to mean a block of wood split into tablets used for writing: and later still a book made up. of leaves, which replaced the yrs rolls on which the earliest jew. Testament documents were! written. two tain "groups, according to 1 These codices are divided into mode of writing: the wreials, oF majuscules, in which each letter separate and written in capital form; and the cursives, or minu: criles, in which the writing is in Tonning hand, with the letters Joined together. Our oldest menu-scripts, of the New Testament. cluding, of course, the Codex Sin fiticus, are all ancial manuscripts.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.