but was abandoned before completion in favor of a more compact form (then languishing in Caesarea until salvaged in the sixth century), while Vaticanus was one of the fifty Bibles actually delivered to Constantinople. Kurt Aland, Bruce M. Metzger, Bart D. Ehrman doubt that Sinaiticus and Vaticanus were copied by Eusebius on the Constantine order. See also Differences between codices Sinaiticus and Vaticanus Great uncial codices References Further reading Elliott, James Keith, The collected biblical writings of T.C. Skeat, Dating and Origin of Codex Vaticanus Gardthausen, Victor, Griechische paleographie, 2 vol., Leipzig, 1913 Gregory, Caspar René, The Canon and Text of the New Testament (Edinburgh 1907) Lake, Kirsopp, The Sinaitic and Vatican manuscripts and the copies sent by Eusebius to Constantine, Harvard Theological Review, vol. XI (1918) McDonald & Sanders, The Canon Debate Price, I. M. (1923), The Ancestry of Our English Bible an Account of Manuscripts, Texts and Versions of the Bible, Sunday School Times Co, s. 146 f. Schumacher, Heinrich, A handbook of Scripture study (1922) Scrivener, Frederick Henry Ambrose, A Plain Introduction to the Criticism of the New Testament, George Bell & Sons, London (1894) Skeat, Teodor Cressy, The Codex Sinaiticus, The Codex Vaticanus and Constantine, Journal of Theological Studies 50 (1999) Westcott & Hort, Introduction to the New Testament in the Original Greek (Harper & Brothers: New York, 1882) External links Eusebii Pamphili de vita Constantini, libri IV, F. A. Heinichen, 1830 The Bibles of Constantine at The Development of the Canon of the New Testament Saan Galin Ang Biblia, pp. 24–25 Greek New Testament uncials Christian terminology Constantine the Great and Christianity 4th-century works Eusebius