Codex Sinaiticus

Evidence state: documented fact

Fourth-century Greek biblical codex represented here as a first-class manuscript entity. Passage-level transcriptions/readings remain separate research records.

Release Introduced

v47

Curation State

CURATED_CATALOG_ENTITY

Short Title

Sinaiticus (א / 01)

Evidence Classification

documented fact

Date Range

{
    "start_ce": 325,
    "end_ce": 375,
    "label": "middle of 4th century CE",
    "certainty": "institutional project dating summarized in existing source record"
}

Languages

[
    "Greek"
]

Tradition Contexts

[
    "BIBLICAL_TEXTUAL_WITNESS",
    "CHRISTIAN_CONTEXT"
]

Identifiers

[
    {
        "scheme": "Gregory-Aland",
        "value": "01"
    },
    {
        "scheme": "Siglum",
        "value": "א"
    }
]

Repository Note

Distributed holdings represented by the Codex Sinaiticus Project partner institutions; consult the linked project for current folio ownership and images.

Contents Scope

Biblical codex. The current catalog links only the passage evidence already curated in the Archive rather than claiming complete folio-level indexing.

Source Ids

[
    "SRC_CODEX_SINAITICUS_PROJECT"
]

Rights

{
    "image_state": "LINK_ONLY",
    "transcription_state": "LINK_ONLY_PENDING_RIGHTS_REVIEW",
    "local_host_state": "RIGHTS_REVIEW_REQUIRED"
}

Evidence Boundary

The manuscript entity records identity/date/provenance context. Individual readings require passage-specific manuscript evidence and must not be inferred from the entity record alone.