Details of exhibit
- Exhibition:
- 1882 [Twenty-seventh] Photographic Society of Great Britain Exhibition
- Exhibit title:
- Fourth Volume of the "Codex Alexandrinus," ...
- Exhibitor:
- Autotype Company
- Exhibit No.:
- 511
- Description:
- containing the New Testament and the Clementine Epistles, reproduced by the Collotype process of the Autotype Co.
"The 'Codex Alexandrinus' is so named from its having been dedicated to the Patriarchal Chamber at Alexandria. It contains the Bible in Greek, and is now bound in four volumes, three of which contain the New Testament, and the fourth the New Testament written in the fifth century in uncial characters. It was removed from Alexandria by the Cyril Lucar, Patriarch of that See, when he became Patriarch of Constantinople in 1621, and was presented by him to King Charles the First in 1627. it thus became part of the old Royal Library which was incorporated with the early collections of the British Museum in 1757." - Exhibit type:
- Photograph
- Process:
- Collotype (Photomechanical)
- Award:
- none
