THE DISCOVERY OF THE CODEX

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The Catalogue of the Greek manuscript codices which are kept on Mount Sinai original: Catalogus codicum mss. graec. qui . . . in monte Sina asservantur records the discovery of a fragment containing, with some gaps, Judith 11:23–12:9. This fragment is held in the library of the Society for Ancient Literature in Petrograd modern Saint Petersburg. I was unaware of this while I was in Russia, but my attention was called to it by Professor Rahlfs of Göttingen. After some difficulty, I was fortunately able in 1916 to obtain photographs through the kind assistance of the American Embassy.

    It may be useful at this stage to summarize the locations where the various portions of the Old Testament of the Codex Sinaiticus are preserved. They are arranged in

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the facsimile according to the original order of the manuscript.

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