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  1. Steven Avery

     who (scholars, palaeographers, photographers, others) saw and handled the two Sinaiticus sections between 1845 and 2009?

    In 1844, 43 leaves went to Leipzig. In 1859, 347 leaves went to St. Petersburg (although they were in Leipzig c. 1861-62 as part of the facsimile book printing process) A pseudo-consensus early production date (4th century, or 5th-6th) on Sinaiticus was reached with very little physical access...
  2. Steven Avery

     Should I try to save information before threads are deleted?

    4Him https://forums.carm.org/threads/deletions.18676/#post-1451406 This mentions the deletion of threads. The Codex Sinaiticus and Simonides threads have a lot of pioneering information. There are maybe 25 threads. Should I be saving this info privately? Thanks!
  3. Steven Avery

     an album of Simonides-connected manuscripts, journals, documents and letters - comparing handwriting scripts

    The key element here is meant to be comparison of handwriting scripts. This should include some that are believed to be authentic, making a good comparison with manuscripts that are in what is seen as a more standard Simonides script, such as those on the Mayer papyri in Liverpool. Plus, we...
  4. Steven Avery

     the 1861 inspection of Sinaiticus by the German Oriental Society - CANCELLED

    As I have pointed out in a variety of contexts, Tischendorf wanted very little examination of the manuscript, especially the two sections together. This time, in 1861, was the time when most everything was in Leipzig. Christian Remembrancer (1862) p. 128...
  5. Steven Avery

     the grapevine which concerned Tischendorf about Simonides en route to St. Catherine's in 1859

    The Discovery of the Codex Sinaiticus as Reported in the Personal Letters of Konstantin Tischendorf By J. M. Featherstone https://www.academia.edu/1123038/The_Discovery_of_the_Codex_Sinaiticus_as_reported_in_the_personal_letters_of_Konstantin_Tischendorf Note: there may be more in Tischendorf...
  6. Steven Avery

     brown stains noted by Milne and Skeat, lamp or candle oil over the centuries?

    Skeat and Milne, Scribes and Correctors of the Codex Sinaiticus, p 71, 1938. Steven Avery ====================== A question I asked to the Library of Stains experts on Facebook.
  7. Steven Avery

     David Parker touches on the accessibility of the New Finds room for Sinaiticus fragments in the 1840s-1850s by Uspensky and Tischendorf

    Codex Sinaiticus - The Story of the World's Oldest Bible (2010) David Parker Excellent! Then we can add the special place of Genesis 24 in the acrostics controversies, and also the linguistic embarrassment of Hermas to Tischendorf. These are missed by Parker because he shows little awareness...
  8. Steven Avery

     Revelation textual features that are difficult for the common Sinaiticus early dating

    We have a Revelation-Sinaiticus thread moving here as the topic was on a thread that was different different: Codex Sinaiticus and Constantine Simonides - the Benedict identity fraud/theft One important additional feature was omitted. Textual CONFLATIONS in Revelation 6 and 17:4 Plus we had...
  9. Steven Avery

     the Syriac Sinaiticus (Syriacus) palimpsest manuscript at St. Catherine's monastery

    Here is a picture of a truly ancient manuscript, a palimpsest, from St. Catherine's at Mt. Sinai. Syriac Sinaiticus (Syriacus) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syriac_Sinaiticus Compare with Codex Sinaiticus from c. AD 1840, claimed by some to be similarly ancient like Syriacus. Same weather :)...
  10. Steven Avery

     anticipating the Simonides to Kallinikos (on hieroglyphics) and the Simonides-Hodgkin correspondence from the Forging Antiquities project

    This has come up numerous times here, so let's start with the wonderful tidbit of information: 2019 Interns on the Forging Antiquity Project https://markersofauthenticity.com/2020/08/07/2019-interns-on-the-forging-antiquity-project/ "One of the projects of my internship included translating...
  11. Steven Avery

     comparing manuscript page turning videos - Codex Sinaiticus and the Archimedes Palimpsest

    comparing page turning videos - Codex Sinaiticus and the Archimedes Palimpsest ======================================== Codex Sinaiticus - date of production c. AD 1840, amazingly some say 4th century flexible, youthful, pages turn easy-peasy - Archimedes Palimpsest - date of production AD...
  12. Steven Avery

     are the holes in this New Finds Deuteronomy parchment fragment caused by 1650+ years of ink-acid reaction?

    The Sinaiticus defenders have been trying desperately to find some spot where the ink-acid reaction destroyed parchment over 1500+ years. Here is the page, did you ever even post a picture? Here is the info on the page, picture to follow. Codex Sinaiticus Project Deuteronomy, 28:68 -...
  13. Steven Avery

     Sara Mazzarino - "What I can certainly say is that the conservation conditions of CS are absolutely perfect in is current state"

    Sara Mazzarino - Book Conservator at the the British Library, Conservation Department 2005-2017 Email 2013 This fits perfectly with what was said by Helen Shenton:
  14. Steven Avery

     how did Simonides and Kallinikos know about Tischendorf's 1844 manuscript theft of 43 leaves?

    "A portion of this was secretly removed from Mount Sinai, by Professor Tischendorf, in 1844. The rest, with inconceivable recklessness, he mutilated and tampered with, according to his liking, in the year 1859. Some leaves he destroyed, especially such as contained the Acrostics of...
  15. Steven Avery

     how did Simonides and Kallinikos know about the colouring of the manuscript?

    We can see the colouring on this earlier post: Sinaiticus Jeremiah - light page from 1844 Leipzig next to the 'yellow with age' 1859 British Library page https://forums.carm.org/threads/sinaiticus-jeremiah-light-page-from-1844-leipzig-next-to-the-yellow-with-age-1859-british-library-page.15655/...
  16. Steven Avery

     Uspensky - Sinaiticus has no gray hair, no wrinkles, not as old as Tischendorf claims

    Letter to Constantine Tischendorf (Against the Antiquity of the Codex Sinaiticus) * Archimandrite Porphyry. https://web.archive.org/web/20200114211638/http://www.sravnika.narod.ru/sin/porf1.htm // "Proceedings of the Kiev Theological Academy", 1865, November, - P. 429-436. Petersburg. 1864 on...
  17. Steven Avery

     Sinaiticus Jeremiah - light page from 1844 Leipzig next to the 'yellow with age' 1859 British Library page

    Pictures are from the Codex Sinaiticus Project (CSP) and the SART team put them together as unified pictures to see the contrast from Leipzig University Library in 1844 and the British Library in 1859 (after their stay in St. Petersburg, Russia). They are used under "fair use" where the...
  18. Steven Avery

     the 1841 letter of recommendation from Anthimos IV for Constantine Simonides

    Published in Greek in Symais in 1849, one of three letters of recommendation. Published in English in the 1859 Memoir, here is the English: ==================== ==================== This is an incredibly important letter, since Anthimos was one of the key figures involved in the transport...
  19. Steven Avery

     "the action of ink upon vellum" - an example of science changing for Sinaiticus

    The action of ink upon vellum is peculiar, slow, and gradual, and leads to results which can be measured by time. The action of light and air, and warmth, and moisture, are also remarkably uniform. - p. 490 Journal of Sacred Literature - April, 1863 from the Clerical Journal of Oct 2, 1862 The...
  20. Steven Avery

     Coptic-Arabic miniatures - two-step 1853 and 1859 theft-extraction from St. Catherine's by Tischendorf - similar to Sinaiticus CFA 1844 and 1859

    Theft reports from St. Catherine's and other monasteries, and libraries, can be reported in various spots and found out in a variety of ways, over time. Not necessarily reported by the monks at the monastery. (cjab wrote that the monks at the monastery claim would be the starting point of the...
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