Hi,
Before working with a question or two above, I want us to look at Codex Friderico-Augustanus (CFA) online, especially so that you can navigate the comparison of the CFA with the rest of Sinaiticus. This type of navigation should include the four crossing points (the CFA consists of two distinct sections). Recommended: the navigation can include looking at anything on the manuscript, CFA and main body.
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NOTE ON NEW FINDS
The "New Finds" involves a 1975 stash of mss, discovered in a hard-to-reach, hidden back room. Scholarship on this continues, it is likely that everything that relates to Sinaiticus is now available. You will see below that this includes elements of a section duplication.
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CODEX FRIDERICO-AUGUSTANUS
Henry Barclay Swete (1835-1917) gives us the precise text of the 43 leaves in the Codex Friderico-Augustanus (CFA):
The Old Testament in Greek: According to the Septuagint, Volume 1 (1901)
edited by Henry Barclay Swete
http://books.google.com/books?id=BxFBAQAAMAAJ&pg=PR20
(i) Codex Friderico-Augustanus (Lips. 1846)—a lithographed facsimile of the 43 leaves which Tischendorf rescued during his visit to S. Catharine's in 1844. These leaves contain 1 Chronicles xi. 32—xix. 17, 2 Esdras ix. 9 to end, Esther, Tobit i. 1—ii. 2, Jeremiah x. 25 to end, Lam.
Thus, the CFA are the leaves beginning here:
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FIRST CFA SECTION - 19 LEAVES - Quire 35, 36 8x2=16 and the first 3 leaves of quire 37
The first 4 leaves, Quire 35, 1,2,3,4 - involve duplication. See below.
1 Chronicles 11:22 - Begin CFA
http://codexsinaiticus.org/en/manuscrip ... omSlider=0
thur to 1 Chronicles 19:17 (MT goes to 19:19) and then begin in the middle of 4th column with 2 Esdras 9:9
http://codexsinaiticus.org/en/manuscrip ... omSlider=0
2 Esdras continues more normally
http://codexsinaiticus.org/en/manuscrip ... omSlider=0
And continues through to the end of 2 Esdras, all of Esther and the beginning of Tobit, up to 2:2
Q37-3v -
http://codexsinaiticus.org/en/manuscrip ... omSlider=0
Cillian O'Hogan, researcher for the British Library called the comparison of this last one from Leipzig with the British Library next folio (hit the arrow sign) a "striking example" of the color change phenomenon (correspondence with the British Library.)
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SECOND CFA SECTION - FOLIOS 47, 48, 49 - 24 Leaves (8x3)
Begins at Jeremiah 10:25 - Folio 47 1r
http://codexsinaiticus.org/en/manuscrip ... omSlider=0
Continues with full text until:
All of Jeremiah and then to Lamentations 2:20 (Hebrew Bible ends at 2:22)
http://codexsinaiticus.org/en/manuscrip ... omSlider=3
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*** With the two sections in hand, and four crossing points, you can evaluate the degree of CFA integration with the rest of the Codex Sinaiticus in terms of textual continuance and "same scribe" identification. ***
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Advanced class: David Charles Parker on the 1 Chronicles duplication.
Codex Sinaiticus: The Story of the World's Oldest Bible David Charles Parker, 2020
The text (of Sinaiticus as a whole) proper begins in the middle of 1 Chronicles, and here immediately we notice an anomaly. The careful reader of the list of contents in Chapter I (Codex Sinaiticus in outline, p. 7-9) will have noticed that 1 Chronicles 17:14-17, 21-25; 18.1-4, 7-10, 12 appears twice. The explanation lies on Q35-F4V ... The note reads:
The sign of the three crosses marks the end of the seven redundant folios and is not part of Esdras.
The text changes from 1 Chronicles to 2 Esdras in the middle of line 26, so that the first two words are from I Chronicles 19.17 and last is from 2 Esdras 9.9 ... (gives English text to focus on duplication)
The note tells us that the seven folios (i.e. fourteen pages, of which five are extant) are a repetition of text that had already been copied. ... How did they miss this nonsense? And how did the scribe copy fourteen pages twice without noticing? ...
We now have a better insight into what happened, because of the first copy of the text (also by Scribe A) is among the New Finds.(continues with more conjectures and more anomalous aspects) p. 65-67
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For the yellow duplicate of Chronicles, in the British Library (white parchment is in Leipzig)
1 Chronicles (duplicate), 9:27 - 10:11 library: BL folio: 1 scribe: A Quire 34, Folio 8r
http://codexsinaiticus.org/en/manuscrip ... omSlider=0
1 Chronicles (duplicate), 10:11 - 11:22 library: BL folio: 1b scribe: A - Quire 34, Folio 8v
http://codexsinaiticus.org/en/manuscrip ... omSlider=0
Although the Sinaiticus website calls the above two urls "duplicate", it is not a section given by Parker, who only gives parts of ch. 17 and 18 as extant duplicates, ie. the following from the New Finds (allowing a distinction between 18:11 and 18:12) :
1 Chronicles, 17:14 - 18:1 library: SC folio: scribe: A - Quire 29, Folio 7r
http://codexsinaiticus.org/en/manuscrip ... omSlider=0
1 Chronicles, 18:1 - 18:11 library: SC folio: scribe: A - Quire 29, Folio 7v
http://codexsinaiticus.org/en/manuscrip ... omSlider=0
So far, it seems like Parker is right, and the British Library erred on that "duplicate" indication above. However, that is tentative.
Note that most of the duplication is not continuous extant text, it is extrapolating from the New Finds fragments, which gives the appearance of bookmarks or discards (this is not referenced by Parker.)
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This explanation above includes elements of the very unusual duplication, our white parchment anomaly, and the 1975 New Finds all in one. Rather a handful. And I include it so we have at least some perspective on the issues involved with the duplication.
My tentative conclusion: It does not appear that the duplication difficulty affects the white parchment anomaly in a direct way. The white part of the duplication went to Leipzig, the yellow part was "left behind".
The fact that duplicate pages and pages contiguous to those taken early by Tischendorf and Uspensky are in the hidden-till-1975 New Finds, can be considered as a bit of an additional smoking pistol.
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Reconstructing Codex Sinaiticus
http://codexsinaiticus.org/en/project/t ... ocating_sp
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Steven Avery