One part of it (29 folios) was moved to the British Museum, another to the Bodleian Library. Until the middle of the 19th century it was thought to be the oldest manuscript of the Septuagint. According to Thomas Hartwell Horne it was not only the most ancient but the most correct manuscript that is extant. According to Swete the manuscript even before the fire had been imperfect. Most of the London fragments of the codex were deciphered and published by Constantin von Tischendorf in 1857; the rest of the codex with the Bristol fragments were deciphered by F. W. Gotch in 1881. See also Vienna Genesis – another illuminated Greek manuscript of the Book of Genesis Early Christian art and architecture References Further reading Calkins, Robert G. Illuminated Books of the Middle Ages. Ithaca, New York: Cornell University Press, 1983. Alfred Rahlfs, Verzeichnis der griechischen Handschriften des Alten Testaments, für das Septuaginta-Unternehmen, Göttingen 1914, p. 107-108. Constantin von Tischendorf, Monumenta sacra inedita (Leipzig 1857), XIII, XXII-XXXVI. Weitzmann, Kurt, ed., Age of spirituality: late antique and early Christian art, third to seventh century, no. 408-409, 1979, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Weitzmann, Kurt. Late Antique and Early Christian Book Illumination. New York: George Braziller, 1977. Weitzmann, Kurt and Herbert L. Kessler. The Cotton Genesis: British Library, Codex Cotton Otho B VI. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1986. External links British Library catalogue entry Illuminated biblical manuscripts 6th-century biblical manuscripts 6th-century illuminated manuscripts 5th-century biblical manuscripts 5th-century illuminated manuscripts Septuagint manuscripts Cotton Library Byzantine illuminated manuscripts