Participants

The Codex Sinaiticus Project was made possible by the collaboration of the partner institutions with other collaborating institutions and people, and with the generous help of a number of funding bodies. Teams of experts from the UK, Germany, Russia, Egypt and the USA have formed a Project Board and four working parties to plan and direct the project.

Partner institutions

The four principal partners in the Codex Sinaiticus Project are the institutions which hold parts of the manuscript:

Collaborating institutions

The Project also works in close collaboration with other institutions, including:

Funding bodies

This work would not have been possible without the generous financial support of the following:

People

Project Board

Ronald Milne (2008-): British Library - Chair of the Project Board
John Tuck (2003-2008): British Library - Chair of the Project Board

Claire Breay: British Library - Project Manager
Alexander Bukreyev: National Library of Russia
Father Justin: St Catherine's Monastery - Representative of Archbishop Damianos and the Holy Monastery of Sinai
Clive Field (2003-2007): British Library
Juan Garcés (2006-): British Library - Project Curator
Ekkehard Henschke (2003-2005): Leipzig University Library
Lara Jukes: British Library - Chair of the Funding and Finance Working Party
Ekaterina Krushelnitskaya: National Library of Russia
Norbert Lossau: Göttingen State and University Library - Chair of the Website Working Party and Technical Standards Working Party
Scot McKendrick: British Library - Chair of the Curatorial Working Party/Scholarly Edition Committee
Panayotes Nikolopoulos: University of Athens & National Library of Greece, Emeritus
David Parker: University of Birmingham
Kent Richards: Society of Biblical Litareture
Ulrich Johannes Schneider (2006-): Leipzig University Library
Helen Shenton: British Library - Chair of the Conservation Working Party
Victoria Solomonides: Embassy of Greece, London
Nikolaos Vadis: Saint Catherine Foundation
David Way: British Library
Vladimir Zaitsev: National Library of Russia

Technical Standards Working Party

Norbert Lossau: Göttingen State and University Library, Germany - Chair
Claire Breay: British Library
David Cooper: Independent digitisation specialist
Rory McLeod: British Library
David Remington: Widener Library, Harvard University
Neil Smith: British Library

Conservation Working Party

Helen Shenton: British Library - Chair
Claire Breay (2003-2006): British Library
Christopher Clarkson: Independent Conservator of parchment and paper manuscripts
Svetlana Dobrusina: National Library of Russia
Ute Feller: Leipzig University Library
William Frame (2004): British Library
Juan Garcés (2006-): British Library - Project Curator
Barry Knight: British Library
Monika Linder (2003-2006): Leipzig University Library
Sophia Manns (2006-): Leipzig University Library
Gavin Moorhead: British Library
John Mumford (2003-2008): British Library
Nicholas Pickwoad: University of the Arts London

Scholarly Edition Working Party

Scot McKendrick: British Library - Chair
Claire Breay: British Library
Juan Garcés: British Library
Ekkehard Henschke (2003-2005): Leipzig University Library
Father Justin: St Catherine's Monastery
Robert Littman: University of Hawai'i
Johan Lust: Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
David Parker: ITSEE, University of Birmingham
Peter Robinson: ITSEE, University of Birmingham
Ulrich Johannes Schneider (2006-): Leipzig University Library
Klaus Wachtel: Institut für neutestamentliche Textforschung, University of Münster
David Way: British Library

Website Working Party

Norbert Lossau: Göttingen State and University Library - Chair
Adrian Arthur: British Library
Claire Breay: British Library
Zeki Mustafa Dogan: Leipzig University Library and Göttingen State and University Library - Technical Co-ordinator of the Project
Juan Garcés: British Library
Father Justin: St Catherine's Monastery
Tim Hadlow: British Library
Peter James: British Library
Ekaterina Krushelnitskaya: National Library of Russia
David Parker: ITSEE, University of Birmingham
Peter Robinson: ITSEE, University of Birmingham
Alfred Scharsky: Leipzig University Library
Ulrich Johannes Schneider (2006-): Leipzig University Library
Klaus Wachtel: Institut für neutestamentliche Textforschung, University of Münster
Leander Seige (2008-): Leipzig University Library

Historical research

Christfried Böttrich: Ernst-Moritz-Arndt-Universität, Greifswald, Germany
William Frame: British Library
Panayotes Nikolopoulos: University of Athens & National Library of Greece, Emeritus
Natalia Smelova: Institute of Oriental Manuscripts, St Petersburg
Anna Zakharova: National Library of Russia

Conservation

Christopher Clarkson: Independent conservator of parchment and paper manuscripts
Ute Feller: Leipzig University Library
Robert Jefferson (2003-2004): British Library
René Larsen: The School of Conservation, The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts
Sophia Manns: Leipzig University Library
Sara Mazzarino: British Library
Gavin Moorhead: British Library
John Mumford: British Library
Flavio Marzo: British Library
Nicholas Pickwoad: University of the Arts London
Jane Pimott (2003-2004): British Library
Nikolas Sarris (2003-2006): British Library

Learn more about the conservation work for Codex Sinaiticus.

Digitisation

Elisabeth Fritsch-Hartung: Photographer, Leipzig University Library
David Cooper: Independent digitisation specialist
Laurence Pordes: Senior Imaging Technician, British Library
Svetlana Shevelchinskaya: Photographer, Institute of Oriental Manuscripts, St Petersburg

Learn more about the digital photography for for Codex Sinaiticus.

Transcription and alignment

Stravoula Andriopoulou: ITSEE - Alignment
Timothy Brown: ITSEE - Transcription
Hugh Houghton: ITSEE - XML conversion
Erika Johnson: ITSEE - Alignment
Hikmat Kashouh: Arab Baptist Theological Seminary, Beirut, Lebanon – Transcription of Arabic glosses
Rachel Kevern: ITSEE - XML conversion
Martin Monahan: ITSEE - Alignment
Amy Myshrall: ITSEE - Transcription
Eirini Panou: ITSEE - Alignment
David Parker: ITSEE - Director
Peter Robinson: ITSEE - Director, Software development
Frouke Schriver: ITSEE - Alignment
Nikolai Serikoff: Wellcome Library, Asian Collections Librarian – Transcription of Arabic glosses
Laura Snook: ITSEE - Alignment
Klaus Wachtel (and colleagues): Institut für neutestamentliche Textforschung - Transcription
Andrew West: ITSEE - Software development, XML conversion

Learn more about the transcription work for Codex Sinaiticus.

Website Development

Zeki Mustafa Dogan: Leipzig University Library and Göttingen State and University Library - Technical Co-ordinator of the Project
Leander Seige (2008-): Leipzig University Library
ACS solutions: Website development
3-point concepts: Website design

English Translation of Codex Sinaiticus

Albert Pietersma - Psalms: Professor of Septuagint and Hellenistic Greek, Department of Near and Middle Eastern Civilizations, Faculty of Arts and Science, The University of Toronto