London, United Kingdom
Codex Sinaiticus, British Library
The oldest surviving complete New Testament, written on vellum in the fourth century and open in a glass case in Euston.
Biblical significance
Discovered at Saint Catherine's Monastery by Constantin von Tischendorf in the nineteenth century and now split between four institutions, the Codex Sinaiticus is one of the two great fourth-century Greek Bibles. The Treasures gallery displays it a few metres from the Lindisfarne Gospels, a Gutenberg Bible and Tyndale's New Testament — one room holding the whole chain of transmission into English.
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Best time to go
Weekday mornings; the gallery is quiet before eleven.
Visitor notes
Free. The Treasures gallery is a fifteen-minute walk from King's Cross.
Coordinates
51.5299, -0.1276
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