Origin and history of the books of the Bible, both the canonical and the apocryphal, designed to show what the Bible is not, what it is, and how to use it . nd the complete textof the letters of Clemens Romanus, from the CodexAlexandrinus in the British Museum, which has neverbeen accurately edited. The two volumes will appearearly in 1867. Codex Sinaiticus, the Sinai manuscript, so calledfrom the place where it was discovered. In 1844 , while traveling under the patronage ofthe king of Saxony, for research in Biblical science,was at the convent of St. Catharine on Mount
Origin and history of the books of the Bible, both the canonical and the apocryphal, designed to show what the Bible is not, what it is, and how to use it . nd the complete textof the letters of Clemens Romanus, from the CodexAlexandrinus in the British Museum, which has neverbeen accurately edited. The two volumes will appearearly in 1867. Codex Sinaiticus, the Sinai manuscript, so calledfrom the place where it was discovered. In 1844 , while traveling under the patronage ofthe king of Saxony, for research in Biblical science,was at the convent of St. Catharine on Mount a basket of rubbish intended to kindle his firehe picked out forty-three beautiful parchment leavesbelonging to a manuscript of the Septuagint hithertounknown. These, on his return to Europe, he pub-lished. On the 4th of February, 1859, he was atthe same convent for the third time, and one of themonks brought to him the other leaves of that samemanuscript loosely tied in a napkin. To his inexpres-sible delight he found here not only the remainingportions of the Septuagint, but also the entire NewTestament with the Epistle of Barnabas, and portions. CONVENT OF ST. CATHA1L1NE, MOUNT SINAI MSS. OF THE NEW TESTAMENT. 73 of the Shepherd of Hermas; the most complete, themost ancient, the best manuscript copy of the entireNew Testament that had as yet been known. Therewas no sleep for him that night. Till morning dawnhe was busy in transcribing, and he persuaded themonks to allow him to take the manuscript with himto Cairo in Egypt, and finally to St. Petersburg inEurope, as a present to the Russian emperor Alexan-der II., the great patron of the Greek church through-out the world. The New Testament part of this manuscript, withBarnabas and Hermas, consists of one hundred andforty-seven and a half leaves of excellent parchment,written four columns on a page, forty-eight lines ineach column, and on an average fifteen letters in a line,in a large, plain, square letter, clearly and sy
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