Wednesday, February 09, 2011

The Beauty of Books: Ancient Bibles (and Codex Sinaiticus)

If you haven't seen it yet, let me strongly recommend the first episode of a new four part series on BBC4:

The Beauty of Books: Ancient Bibles

It is thirty minutes long and the first ten or so minutes discuss Codex Sinaiticus and there are contributions from Scot McKendrick, David Parker and Janet Soskice. There are some great shots of the manuscript. It was on BBC 4 on Monday and it was repeated yesterday. You can catch it on the iPlayer from the link above, although international users will need to use some jiggery-pokery if they want to view it. There is also a two minute clip here, featuring Scot McKendrick



Clip HT: Deirdre Good.
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3 comments:

  1. Brice C. Jones9 February 2011 at 17:19

    Any suggestions about which jiggery-pokery to use?

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  2. Mark Goodacre9 February 2011 at 19:59

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  3. Steven Avery18 August 2024 at 04:19

    Thanks for posting this amazing vide!

    Considering the “phenomenally good condition” (Helen Shenton, British Library) that we can see for the parchment and ink, pages flexibly turning, and the controversies about its production, and the lack of provenance before 1840 —

    We should want to revisit the “scholarly consensus” that this is an ancient manuscript, :)

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