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Originally Posted by DaleDe
Here is a quote from Smith's dictionary.
(1) the Alexandrian (codex Alexandrinus, marked A), so named because it was found in Alexandria in Egypt, in 1628. It date back to a.d. 350, and is now in the British Museum.
(2) The Vatican (codex Vaticanus, B), named from the Vatican library at Rome, where it is kept. Its date is a.d. 300 to 325.
(3) The Sinaitic (codex Sinaiticus) so called from the convent of St. Catherine on Mount Sinai, there it was discovered by or Tichendorf in 1844. It is now at St. Petersburg Russia. This is one of the earliest best of all the manuscripts.
— Smith's Bible Dictionary
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The other one generally included in the list of major ancient sources is a manuscript called the "Ephraemi Rescriptus", which is in the Louvre in Paris. It's believed to be roughly contemporary with the Alexandrinus.