BL puts the Codex Alexandrinus online

Codex Alexandrinus is one of the three earliest and mostly complete manuscripts of the Bible in Greek. It resides in the British Library and is one of the earliest books to employ significant decoration to mark major divisions in the text. The other two nearly complete early Greek Bibles are the Codex Sinaiticus, also in the British Library, and Codex Vaticanus in the Vatican Library in Rome. The Codex Alexandrinus has been placed on-line as part of the British Library's Online Galery presentation and is included in the Sacred Texts exhibit.

The Sacred texts: exhibit includes seventy eight texts across all faiths. They are presented with zoomable high-resolution images and detailed descriptions and informaion.

Below is a chronological listing of exhibit items.

Pre-500

• Gandharan Scrolls 1st c
• Gospel of Thomas 3rd c
• Codex Sinaiticus c.350
• Codex Alexandrinus 5th c
• Syriac Bible 463/4

500s-900s

• Vulgate Gospels 6th c
• Lindisfarne Gospels late 7th-early 8th c
• Ma'il Qur'an 8th c
• Torah Codex 9th c
• Kufic Qur'an c.850
• Diamond Sutra 868
• Ashem Vohu 9th-10th c
• Gaster Bible 9th-10th c
• New Testament, Constantinople mid-10th c
• Benedictional of St Aethelwold 970-980

1000s

• Old English Hexateuch 1000-50
• Qur'an from Iraq or Persia 1036
• Theodore Psalter 1066

1100s

• Silos Apocalypse c.1100
• Melisende Psalter 1131-43
• Harley Trilingual Psalter 1130-54

1200s

• Awag Vank' Gospels 1200-02
• Syriac Gospel Lectionary 1216-20
• Spanish Qur'an 13th c
• Matthew Paris's Jerusalem pilgrim's travel guide c.1250
• King David, North French Miscellany c.1278-98
• Babylonian Talmud 13th-14th c
• Pentateuch with prophetical readings 13th-14th c

1300s

• Duke of Sussex's German Pentateuch c.1300
• Picturing God in a Jewish manuscript c.1300
• Sultan Baybars' Qur'an 1304
• Sultan Uljaytu's Qur'an 1310
• Golden Haggadah c.1320
• Videvdad 1323
• Santiago pilgrim's travel guide 1300-50
• Luttrell Psalter c.1320-40
• Holkham Bible 1325-50
• Mamluk Qur'an 1337
• Samaritan Pentateuch 1339
• Duke of Sussex's Spanish Bible mid-14th c
• Gospels in Arabic 14th c
• Barcelona Haggadah 14th c
• Tsar Ivan Alexander's Gospels 1355-56
• Spanish Hebrew Bible 1384

1400s

• Duke of Sussex's Italian Pentateuch c.1400
• Sherborne Missal c.1400-1407
• Sultan Faraj's Qur'an 1400-1412
• Bedford Hours c.1423
• Gutenberg Bible 1455
• Portuguese Pentateuch 15th c
• Hajj certificate 15th c
• San'a Pentateuch 1469
• Lisbon Bible 1482
• Sforza Hours c.1490
• First complete Mishnah 1492

1500s

• Qur'an with Persian translation early 16th c
• Tyndale New Testament 1526
• Henry VIII's Psalter 1530-47
• Picturing the Prophet 1539-43
• Devimahatmya 1549
• Indian Qur'an 16th c

1600s

• King James Bible 1611
• Chinese Torah 1643-63
• Chinese Qur'an 17th c
• Ramayana 1649-53
• Armenian prayer scroll 1655
• Gospels in Coptic and Arabic 1663
• Shi'ite fatwas late 17th c
• Ethiopian Octateuch late 17th c

1700s

• Leipnik Haggadah 1740
• Italian Ketubah 1776

1800s

• Karaite Pentateuch 1835
• Islamic marriage contract 1840
• Javanese Qur'an 19th c
• Mecca and Medina pilgrim's travel guide 19th c
• Wahhabi manuscript 1853
• Afghan Ketubah 1889

1900s

• Ka'bah pilgrim's travel guide 1900

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- adapted from the British Library website.