Before the Codex Sinaiticus was (compiled) and bound less than 400 years after Jesus' crucifixion, most Bibles were written on (collections) of scrolls. The 1,400 parchment pages of the Codex - which was named after its (discovery) in Sinai - were scattered between St Petersburg, Leipzig, London and Egypt, but each page has now been (digitally) photographed and collected on a single web-site. 

900 of the 16 by 14 inch pages (survive), each bearing four neat columns of Classical Greek. Careful study reveals passages that have been (questioned) and altered repeatedly over the centuries. 

The British Library, which begins an (exhibition) of the Codex Sinaiticus today, said the book gave first-hand evidence of how the text of the Bible had been transmitted from (generation) to generation.

Robert Pigott, BBC