Abstract
This chapter begins with Codex Sinaiticus. In the volume Scribes and Correctors of the Codex Sinaiticus Herbert Milne put forward an argument which appears almost incontrovertible for the belief that Sinaiticus was written in Caesarea. Kirsopp Lake adduces arguments linking the text of Sinaiticus with Egypt, including a statement by Harnack that the text of Sinaiticus resembled that found in the Coptic Gnostic work, the Pistis Sophia, 'wie ein Zwillingsbruder nahe'. Codex Vaticanus provides no such dramatic and convincing evidence of its origin as does Sinaiticus. Any conclusion regarding its provenance relies almost entirely upon its association with Sinaiticus. The chapter refers to the possibility that Vaticanus might have been one of the 50 bibles ordered by Constantine, remarking that this could only be a suggestion, since 'even if it was in Constantinople in 1438 it would not follow that it was there 1100 years earlier'. Keywords: Caesarea; Codex Sinaiticus; Codex Vaticanus; Constantinople; Egypt; Kirsopp Lake
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