#ManuscriptMonday GA 2878 is a single parchment leaf containing a portion of Luke 23, dated to the 12th century. This fragment is housed at the Dunham Bible Museum in Houston, Texas. CSNTM had the opportunity to examine and digitize the manuscript in 2019. View images in our

On a recent trip to Oxford, our team came across something unexpected in a 13th-century Gospel manuscript: faint writing beneath the visible text. It was a palimpsest—an ancient document with earlier writing scraped off and overwritten. To fully uncover what’s hidden, we need

Our final session of Text to Translation is just around the corner! Join us as we answer the question: How do we get from the Greek New Testament to the English translations we read today? Don't miss this opportunity to wrap up the series or to join us for the first time. We’d

#ManuscriptMonday GA 1875 is a 10th-century manuscript housed in Athens and photographed by CSNTM. It contains Acts, the Pauline Epistles, and the Catholic Epistles, along with beautiful illuminations—like this depiction of Paul at the beginning of 1 Corinthians. Explore more

#ManuscriptMonday The tiny Gospel codex GA 2364 only covers 9x7 cm, making it smaller than the hands that held it open when CSNTM photographed it in 2008. Yet, the small book holds 492 leaves of Gospels text with an Apostolos supplement. See images here: buff.ly/oi557Bs

#TextCriticTuesday The classics scholar of Trinity College at Cambridge, Richard Bentley (1662–1742) ambitiously aimed to compile an edition of the Greek New Testament to be the "Magna Carta to the whole Christian church” by comparing the oldest Greek manuscripts to the Vulgate.

⚠️ Flashing Lights Warning⚠️ What looks like flashing lights is actually cutting-edge technology at work! Through multi-spectral imaging (MSI), we can uncover erased or faded text in ancient New Testament manuscripts—revealing texts that have remained obscure for decades,

#ThrowbackThursday to a blog post highlighting one of the most significant parchment manuscripts CSNTM has digitized—Codex Koridethi. Digitized in Tbilisi, Georgia, this manuscript offers a unique glimpse into the history of the New Testament text. Read the post to learn more

#ManuscriptMonday CSNTM photographed GA 2903 before it was cataloged and numbered. The small pages of this 12-13th c. manuscript of the Catholic and Pauline epistles in the Albania National Archive measure only 12 x 14 cm (4.5 x 5.5”). See more images: buff.ly/3Aw3IGN

Today (July 9, 2025), join Daniel B. Wallace on the InspiringPhilosophy - Michael Jones YouTube channel as they review a Dan McClellan video on significant editorial changes in our early New Testament Manuscripts. Check the link for more information and the precise time! youtube.com/watch?v=Kp1v2N…

#ManuscriptMonday CSNTM had the privilege of digitizing GA Lect 578, an 11th-century lectionary of the Gospels, at the University of Edinburgh in 2016. One of the most intriguing features? Impressions of what appears to be Latin text preserved on the inside covers (pictured).

When CSNTM started digitizing manuscripts in 2002, we used a 4-5MP camera that took one image every 90 seconds. It was slow, but cutting-edge at the time. Today, we capture ultra-high-resolution images at 150 megapixels, preserving even the most minute details of ancient New

#ThrowbackThursday to our From the Library post featuring GA 807—a New Testament manuscript we digitized in Greece in 2018. This feature explores the digitization process, how the manuscript handles the story of the woman caught in adultery, and the fascinating commentary it

#ManuscriptMonday Papyrus 66 (𝔓66) is an early manuscript of the Gospel of John, housed at The Bodmer Foundation in Geneva, Switzerland. Explore more images here: buff.ly/3higLWu / buff.ly/3ybU9x0

When Jan encountered CSNTM’s digital manuscript library, it didn’t just confirm his faith—it deepened it. Today, innovative tools are transforming how we study the New Testament and giving more people access to its earliest manuscripts than ever before. Your support is fueling

#ManuscriptMonday GA Lect 2434 is a 15th-century paper lectionary with a remarkable story—its surviving portions are scattered across 20 locations worldwide, making it the most fragmented manuscript on the INTF Kurzgefasste Liste. Learn more in this presentation by former CSNTM

#ManuscriptMonday GA 69 is a 15th-century minuscule that contains every book of the New Testament, some with portions missing. See images here: buff.ly/3vOuFUS #CSNTM #NewTestament #TextualCriticism #NTTC #Bible #CSNTM #Manuscripts #Digitization #PreservingHistory

#TextCriticTuesday Johann Jakob Griesbach (1745-1812) articulated and defined many of the foundational principles of modern textual criticism. Among his many contributions to the field, he also studied various versions of the New Testament and quotations from the Fathers.

#ManuscriptMonday The 9th century minuscule, GA 1424, contains all the New Testament books with only one lacuna. Its text groups it with a family of Byzantine manuscripts that took the name of this manuscript, family 1424. See more images here: buff.ly/3xgqnWA.

#ManuscriptMonday GA 1411 is part of a unique category of manuscripts known as catenae—which include both the biblical text and surrounding commentary. A former CSNTM team members who photographed this manuscript went on to study it in depth! Read more: buff.ly/9EK3dHK