Steven Avery
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The British Quarterly Review (1863)
The Sinaitic Codex
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One circumstance we have not yet referred to deserves notice. On the occasion of the meeting of the Archaeological Association in October, I862. the fac-simile edition of the Codex-Fredericus was laid before Dr. Simonides, and the question plainly put to him, 'Did you write with your hands the MS. from which these fac-similes were taken ?’ The answer was at once, ‘ I did.’ He was then asked, 'Were the various subscriptions appended to the books your writing?’ ‘They were.’ 'And whatever was stated therein was true ?’ ' Most certainly.' The subscription on the thirteenth leaf was then shown him, which reads us follows : ‘ Compared with a very old copy, corrected by the hand of the holy martyr Pamphilius,' &c, meaning the friend of Eusebius, who suffered A.D. 308. He was then asked, ‘Had you then at Mount Athos a copy of the Scriptures corrected by the hand of Pamphilius himself?’ Here the interpreter for the first time was unable to make the Greek understand the import of the question; and, strange to say, no answer was obtained to this simple interrogation until the next day. The reply when at length given was, that it was not Pamphilius’ own copy, but a copy of that, which was still preserved in the Monastery of Mount, Athos!
The Sinaitic Codex
https://books.google.com/books?id=TMNjkkJZw8UC&pg=PA363
One circumstance we have not yet referred to deserves notice. On the occasion of the meeting of the Archaeological Association in October, I862. the fac-simile edition of the Codex-Fredericus was laid before Dr. Simonides, and the question plainly put to him, 'Did you write with your hands the MS. from which these fac-similes were taken ?’ The answer was at once, ‘ I did.’ He was then asked, 'Were the various subscriptions appended to the books your writing?’ ‘They were.’ 'And whatever was stated therein was true ?’ ' Most certainly.' The subscription on the thirteenth leaf was then shown him, which reads us follows : ‘ Compared with a very old copy, corrected by the hand of the holy martyr Pamphilius,' &c, meaning the friend of Eusebius, who suffered A.D. 308. He was then asked, ‘Had you then at Mount Athos a copy of the Scriptures corrected by the hand of Pamphilius himself?’ Here the interpreter for the first time was unable to make the Greek understand the import of the question; and, strange to say, no answer was obtained to this simple interrogation until the next day. The reply when at length given was, that it was not Pamphilius’ own copy, but a copy of that, which was still preserved in the Monastery of Mount, Athos!