TwoNoteableCorruptions
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Of course not, at the time Simonides was not in Leipzig, he had not seen the manuscript and the report on the fragments did not say from where they had come.
Actually, at the moment we may only have this information from Luciano Canfora, who sometimes writes with extrapolation, rather than from Enthüllungen über den Simonides or any other source.
Canfora has info on:
Il viaggio di Artemidoro (2011)
https://books.google.com/books?id=slC8ywpEIGQC&pg=PA236
However, note the anachronistic extrapolation, the CFA was not connected to Sinai at that time. The passage may be in those Greek pages in Enthüllungen, maybe.
Also from Canfora in the same spot we have some geographical confirmations:
Before the trip to the West, Simonides had traveled the wide area that goes from Odessa to Alexandria, Egypt through Athos, his favorite destination, and the seat of his memorable stay.
They are not in those Greek pages... which are dated August and September 1853 from London.