Re: Codex Sinaiticus - the white parchment Friderico-Augustanus
Posted: Thu Aug 02, 2018 5:24 am
Actually, that pic above, with the word contiguous and the British Library, was my late night error, since they were using St. Catherine's pages, which were subject to environmental disaster, as the left page.
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The four actual contiguous pages are on:
Four Contiguous Points
http://www.sinaiticus.net/four%20contig ... oints.html
And here is one: (images and attachments seem to have quirks today)
A difference that is far beyond any lighting issues, and is confirmed by Gavin Moorhead, British Library Conservator who worked on the CSP project and specifically wrote us that:
"the Leipzig folios are notable for their whiteness."
He was far more honest and forthright about the leaves than couple of writers who try to pretend there was no difference. He does make an allusion to the difference being from conservation and storage, but that simply does not make sense, when you look at the history and the evidences. It was sort of the obligatory theory.
You can look at the two pages here:
British Library
http://www.codexsinaiticus.org/en/manus ... omSlider=0
Leipzig
http://www.codexsinaiticus.org/en/manus ... omSlider=0
And why the differences?
See "Two Main Holdings" above.
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The idea that there were separated is a Tischendorf myth. He very carefully stole five intact quires (3+2) from the bound manuascript, which is 80 of the 86 leaves. The other 6 leaves include the critical to the charade Esther colophon in a sixth quire contiguous to the fifth.
All the leaves were white parchment when seen by Uspensky together the next year.
Steven
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The four actual contiguous pages are on:
Four Contiguous Points
http://www.sinaiticus.net/four%20contig ... oints.html
And here is one: (images and attachments seem to have quirks today)
A difference that is far beyond any lighting issues, and is confirmed by Gavin Moorhead, British Library Conservator who worked on the CSP project and specifically wrote us that:
"the Leipzig folios are notable for their whiteness."
He was far more honest and forthright about the leaves than couple of writers who try to pretend there was no difference. He does make an allusion to the difference being from conservation and storage, but that simply does not make sense, when you look at the history and the evidences. It was sort of the obligatory theory.
You can look at the two pages here:
British Library
http://www.codexsinaiticus.org/en/manus ... omSlider=0
Leipzig
http://www.codexsinaiticus.org/en/manus ... omSlider=0
And why the differences?
See "Two Main Holdings" above.
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The idea that there were separated is a Tischendorf myth. He very carefully stole five intact quires (3+2) from the bound manuascript, which is 80 of the 86 leaves. The other 6 leaves include the critical to the charade Esther colophon in a sixth quire contiguous to the fifth.
All the leaves were white parchment when seen by Uspensky together the next year.
Steven