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If such a 16th- or 17th-century mention in a publication existed, probably someone would have noticed it by now. The Voss book was published in 1646, so any 16th-century (1500s) text could not have been about that volume. Quesnell was not the first to doubt "Secret Mark." E.g., Pierson Par...

"Rediscovered Fragments Shed New Light on a Proto-Masoretic Torah Scroll" Paul Sanders, J. of Hebrew Scriptures v. 35 a.5, 23 pages [2023] During the past decade, two fragments of a single Torah scroll caught much attention, since they date from the 7th or 8th century CE.1 They are among t...

"the whole Greek Orthodox Patriarchate"?

Forgeries happen. I won't retype the evidence now, as you seem set on ignoring such.

Let's see what turns up.
No point speculating about how to evaluate what we have not yet seen.

No one mentioned a "monumental discovery" before 1958.
Your "Surely...within 24 hours....must have....Surely...." does not make those speculations so.

His monk minder saw him bring books from his overnight allotment.

No one claimed to see it before 1958.
Questions about authenticity started before QQ.

Smith does not mention showing it in 1958 to any monk.

I was trying to address one point at that time, namely, whether Smith was in the Mar Saba tower library. He was. Perhaps you were thinking of the Jerusalem library, which may be, for most people, closed stacks. On the handwriting, lots of people thought it looked like 18th-century writing, or late 1...