Constantin von Tischendorf
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Lobegott Friedrich Constantin Tischendorf was a German biblical scholar. In 1844, he discovered the world's oldest and most complete Bible dated to around the mid-4th century and called Codex Sinaitic
Constantin von Tischendorf, around 1870
Title page from Tischendorf's facsimile edition of the Codex Sinaiticus, published in 1862
Matthew 26:52–69 in Tischendorf's facsimile edition (1843)
Codex Vaticanus
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The Codex Vaticanus is a manuscript of the Greek Bible, containing the majority of the Greek Old Testament and the majority of the New Testament. It is designated by the siglum B or 03 in the Gregory-
Constantin von Tischendorf
…The Codex Sinaiticus contains a 4th-century manuscript of New Testament texts. Two other Bibles of similar age exist, though they are less complete: Codex Vaticanus in the Vatican Library and Codex Alexandrinus, currently owned by the British Library. The Codex Sinaiticus is deemed by some to be the most important…
Page from Codex Vaticanus; ending of 2 Thes and beginning of Heb
Ending of Luke and Beginning of John on the same page
A section of the codex containing 1 Esdras 2:1–8
The end of Mark in Vaticanus contains an empty column after Verse 16:8, possibly suggesting that the scribe was aware of the missing ending. It is the only empty New Testament column in the Codex.