{"id":231,"date":"2008-07-23T15:14:00","date_gmt":"2008-07-23T15:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/?p=231"},"modified":"2010-12-27T02:52:11","modified_gmt":"2010-12-27T02:52:11","slug":"codex-sinaiticus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/2008\/07\/23\/codex-sinaiticus\/","title":{"rendered":"Codex Sinaiticus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_p-m6o9O32-o\/SIdMjCXqdUI\/AAAAAAAAAa8\/U6d1ytG3suA\/s1600-h\/07_23_codexSinaiticus.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;\" src=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_p-m6o9O32-o\/SIdMjCXqdUI\/AAAAAAAAAa8\/U6d1ytG3suA\/s200\/07_23_codexSinaiticus.jpg\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5226230057402004802\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>Tomorrow the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.codexsinaiticus.org\/\">Codex Sinaiticus<\/a> website will go live, presenting the entire 4th-century Greek manuscript online. From the looks of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.codexsinaiticus.org\/website01_Kopie.jpg\">screenshot<\/a>, it could be valuable for the study of the Byzantine Roman uncial letter forms of that time. A magnifying glass, similar to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bl.uk\/onlinegallery\/ttp\/ttpbooks.html\">Turning the Pages<\/a> technology used for manuscripts on the British Library site, allows for close inspection. A typeset transcription is provided on the side, with a translation (I hope in English as well as German) beneath that.<\/p>\n<p>The web site will be introduced on Thursday, substantially updated in November, and fully developed by July 2009.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:78%;\">via <a href=\"http:\/\/tech.slashdot.org\/article.pl?sid=08\/07\/23\/0110243&amp;from=rss\">Slashdot<\/a> (who got the manuscript date wrong by about 800 years, but who&#8217;s counting?)<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tomorrow the Codex Sinaiticus website will go live, presenting the entire 4th-century Greek manuscript online. From the looks of the screenshot, it could be valuable for the study of the Byzantine Roman uncial letter forms of that time. A magnifying glass, similar to the Turning the Pages technology used for manuscripts on the British Library &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/2008\/07\/23\/codex-sinaiticus\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Codex Sinaiticus&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-231","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-historical-manuscripts"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9bHT3-3J","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=231"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}