Bulgarian - Borislav Borisov - codicology - extracts about sophisticated tools and printing concepts

Steven Avery

Administrator
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Composition
We will begin with an overview of Codex
Sinaiticus from the electronic edition, the link of
which is below the title of the material. The
extant pages have an enviable uniformity which
the manuscript monuments of this century lack.
Here, for example, is the Codex Alcxandrinus
of the 5th century Fig. C. It was written,
, historiographically, in the same period, since
50-100 years hardly changed with the technology
of the copyists. And it is very simple. The
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pre-treated leather is painted with ink and a pen (from a bird feather, reed or bamboo) and the
pages are sewn. This method has been unchanged for parchments for 1000 years and only
changed with the invention of printing,
the production of industrial quantities of paper, etc.
Codex Alexandrinus contains all the "human marks" in writing. For the page of fig. 2, also
cannot be said to contain mechanical, human marks.

"with printing came square pages"

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There cannot be constant "radial deviations" horizontally and
vertically EXCEPT when the graphemes are mechanically laid or if the graphemes are
written by a robot.

There is no way that the "radial effect" has an absolutely precisely geometrically located
final phase, i.e. points O to be the same distance from the initial start of the print literally to the
nearest micron. Column after column and page after page to end each entry in a precisely
determined place at the bottom of the sheet with an accuracy of less than a millimeter is
not within human capabilities.
Still.
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I claim that not rows of graphemes to be written, the most ordinary lines starting from the initial
letter (O1) and ending at the end of the column (O), cannot be done at this angle, without tools
such as a millimeter ruler (or a drawing compass) and a right angle, as a minimum technical
means.
It is also not known for the 4th century to use more precise measures than "palm" (four
fingers), "span" and "cubit", as these are also the most precise units of measurement in the
Bible for all time. The "radial effect" at writing gives the largest values with the development
(laying down) of the writing of the graphemes, while in CS it is the opposite, the largest
constant deviations are in the first rows, so that they reach zero values in the last rows of the
corresponding column, i.e. here a different technology is applied than the handwritten one in
laying down the graphemes
 
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Steven Avery

Administrator
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IF the text was written in handwriting BEFORE the sheets were bound, IT remains inexplicable
how the columns fit one under the other on both sides of the sheet with micron accuracy (this
is evident today, as the ink penetrates the parchment and shows through on the reverse side, but
there is no way it could have been visible during the printing of the lists). On Veterum

"pins" (fig. C) which marked the rows, as well as in fig. 2A. It is easy to explain the placement
of the columns in a handwritten manner, with the opening indicating the end of the first row of
the fourth column being used for the beginning of the first row of the first column on the
reverse side. However, there are NO such openings in the dozens of pages that we have
reviewed, and even among the best-preserved ones. Such holes, due to the natural elasticity of
the parchment, over time "open" and expand many times, as the leather shrinks over the years,
however well it is treated, and the borders of the hole are pulled towards the main mass. One
such hole from a "pin", which was absolutely imperceptible when the "pin" was removed at the
time of writing (and probably therefore considered a perfect solution for regulating the rows)
after hundreds of years has acquired a width of the order of a millimeter, and precisely as such
it we observe in the mentioned manuscripts of fig. C, fig. 2A etc. Such "holes" are not found
in C.S., and this leads us to think that the printing of the pages was simultaneous on both sides
of the sheet.
Something similar to today's toaster, which is fixed on one side and in the two
 

Steven Avery

Administrator
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7. "Elaboration" of the handwriting, by which one can judge the speed of writing - ovality,
indentation, etc.
Workmanship to the point of mechanical printing. This elaborateness docs not correspond
with the general layout of the columns, which persistently and leaf after leaf follow their
geometric inclination to the left. And always in a four pack.
 
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