Russian authorities for the first time granted a researcher access to a 1869 document signed by Callistratus, the Archbishop of Sinai, and Count Ignatiev, a Russian official, which transferred ownership of the Codex Sinaiticus, the earliest known text of the Bible (350 A.D.), from St. Catherine Monastery in Sinai to the Czar for a 9,000 ruble donation. In 1933 Stalin sold the Codex to the British Library for £100,000, upon which the Monastery claimed ownership of the Codex. The newly published document strengthens the British Library’s ownership case.
http://www.theartnewspaper.com/articles/Key-document-on-Codex-Sinaiticus-discovered/20216
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