"In a Monastery Library" tells the compelling true story of how the Codex was discovered at the Monastery of St Catherine on Mount Sinai in Egypt, and explores the complexity, time and cost of its ambitious production. Just as intriguing is the history of how the Codex came to be dispersed throughout the world, with its precious leaves now divided between Egypt, Russia, Austria and England. For example, when in the 1930s it became known in Britain that the Soviets desperately needed to raise foreign capital, the British ...
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"In a Monastery Library" tells the compelling true story of how the Codex was discovered at the Monastery of St Catherine on Mount Sinai in Egypt, and explores the complexity, time and cost of its ambitious production. Just as intriguing is the history of how the Codex came to be dispersed throughout the world, with its precious leaves now divided between Egypt, Russia, Austria and England. For example, when in the 1930s it became known in Britain that the Soviets desperately needed to raise foreign capital, the British government purchased 347 leaves from Russia for the princely sum of GBP100,000. When the Codex leaves arrived at the British Museum on 27 December 1933, long queues formed to view the magnificent treasure. Finally, the book tells how all surviving leaves of the Codex will soon be gathered together again and made accessible to a worldwide audience for the first time through digitization.
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Good. Clean pages, with no owners' marks, though fanned at the top free corners; the soft cover bears an unfortunate scuff partly obscuring the first "I" of the title on the front cover, a short crease at the top left rear corner, and tiny curls and edge chips at corners and spine ends, but is overall sound. 48pp.; color illus.; Large 8vo.
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