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Returning to gelatinisation. There is no rating assigned, so there is no actual measurement to show that it is something that is more than would be expected in 175 years of handling. The reference there was simply that it was difficult to determine the animal type. And that difficulty is always the ...

While the codex looks good for its age, it sports quite a lot of gelatinisation and distortion on the surface level, which is to be expected from its age. See here . Scroll down to "Follicles". "Unfortunately, much of the remaining follicle evidence has been gelatinised and distorted...

It sounds really interesting. But there could be a good case against this theory. There are two fragments of one leave of the Codex. The greater fragment is in London and the smaller fragment in Saint Petersburg. One parchment, one scribe and one ink and they were digitalized together. Interestingl...

your point that a document that is 1600 years old cannot look that good is also garbage. Think of papyri, which are even much more fragile and go bad much more quickly. This text here, which is probably the source for part of the Joseph story in Genesis, is more than 3200 years old and looks good: ...

A book by Abbe Martin (1840-1890) "Description technique des manuscrits grecs relatifs au Nouveau Testament, conservés dans les bibliothèques des Paris" (Paris 1883) Jean-Pierre-Hippolyte Martin https://books.google.com/books?id=mBOvXrCyVF4C https://play.google.com/store/books/details/Desc...

Just as an aside, the other night I was wondering about the fact that Uspensky originally said this ms. could not be earlier than about 500 AD, because it had some sections from Euthalia. And I was thinking about the nuance of David Trobisch, where he allows dates from the 500s to the 700s. So how w...

Hi Ulan, Greetings. Let me ask you one question for now. You have most of the elements to explain the condition of Sinaiticus already on the codexsinaiticus.org site. While the codex looks good for its age, it sports quite a lot of gelatinisation and distortion on the surface level, which is to be e...

Unbelievable but true: it was permitted to touch all sheets of the Codex. Alexander Schick, Tischendorf und die älteste Bibel der Welt, 2015, page 180-182 The Brits paid 100.000 £ (in goods) for the Sinaiticus. But the government gave only the half. The rest was collected in the British Museum in a...

So who did the tests on the manuscript to demonstrate this alleged lemon juice/herbs/tea business? I guess nobody. It's all speculation. Three are major component elements and we end up with trivially easy deduction. =================== KALLINIKOS 'CALLED SHOTS' OF LEMON-JUICE TAMPERING 1) The repo...

And for the record, he has a hidden agenda in his 'research' -. Apparently, according to Bill Brown, to further an "agenda": I must have gone and secretly coloured and stained all the Sinaiticus sheets with lemon juice in England! And then I ran over to Leipzig with a new-cleansing method...