Oldest complete New Testament. Including Barnabas and Hermas shows the edges of the collection were still open in the mid-4th century.
Dating
Mid-4th century by palaeography and contents (Eusebian section numbers present); widely accepted. T. C. Skeat's suggestion that it was one of Constantine's fifty Bibles (c. 331) is speculative.See the pages
About the manuscript
- Contents
- MatthewMarkLukeJohnActsRomans1 Corinthians2 CorinthiansGalatiansEphesiansPhilippiansColossians1 Thessalonians2 Thessalonians1 Timothy2 TimothyTitusPhilemonHebrewsJames1 Peter2 Peter1 John2 John3 JohnJudeRevelationComplete New Testament (order: Gospels, Paul with Hebrews after 2 Thessalonians, Acts, Catholic Epistles, Revelation), followed by the Epistle of Barnabas and part of the Shepherd of Hermas.
- Found
- Mons Horeb / Sinai (St Catherine's Monastery) (Jebel Musa, Sinai)Found at St Catherine's Monastery, Sinai, by Constantin von Tischendorf (1844, 1853, 1859). Further leaves found there in 1975. Origin (Caesarea or Egypt) is debated.
- Held by
- British Library, London (Add MS 43725); also Leipzig University Library, National Library of Russia and St Catherine's Monastery
- Also called
- Aleph · א · 01