Steven Avery
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“in abjectis lacerorum reliquiis”
"in abjectis lacerorum voluminum reliquiis detexi"
"zerrissener und verderbter Handschriften"
torn and tattered fragments,
tattered and ruined manuscripts
torn in pieces and thrown away.
sister threads
the first public exposure of the 1844 theft of the white parchment leaves that Tischendorf took from Sinai to Leipzig
https://www.purebibleforum.com/index.php/threads/a.545
1844 saved from burning myth - "ich bin in den Besitzgelangt von"
https://www.purebibleforum.com/index.php/threads/a.85
This thread
CFA claimed to among torn and tattered fragments
https://www.purebibleforum.com/index.php/threads/a.785
https://www.facebook.com/groups/sinaiticus/permalink/276987615811384/
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William Forsyth (1812-1899)
History of Ancient Manuscripts: A Lecture Delivered in the Hall of the Inner Temple (1872)
William Forsyth
https://books.google.com/books?id=MIgIAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA103
... the Codex Frederic Augustus, discovered by Tischendorf, and published by him in 1846. He found it in an Eastern monastery amidst torn and tattered fragments, “in abjectis lacerorum reliquiis.” It is, I believe, now in the Library at Leipzig. It contains only fragments of the Old Testament, and until the Codex Sinaiticus was discovered, was believed to be the oldest MS. of the Greek Testament in existence.
So even in 1872 some did not realize that the CFA manuscript was part of Sinaiticus.
Vetus Testamentum graece juxta LXX interpretes, Volume 1 (1850)
edited by Constantin von Tischendorf
https://books.google.com/books?id=zvVMAQAAMAAJ&pg=PP57
https://books.google.com/books?id=0wNNAQAAMAAJ&pg=PR47
print better in later editions
https://books.google.com/books?id=zht7wWQOTB4C&pg=PA60
§. 19. Transeo ad alterum locupletissimum apparatus nostri instrumentum, codicem Friderico-Augustanum. Hunc, quum anno 1844. celeberrimis Europae bibliothecis perlustratis orientales terras et quae ibi monasteria vigent adibam, in abjectis lacerorum voluminum reliquiis detexi. Inventum thesaurum eodem anno ex oriente attuli in patriam, ornatumque nomine Friderici Augusti regis Saxoniae, cujus auspiciis iter susceperam, non sine grati animi testificatione iis cessi penes quos tunc supremum administrandae patriae consilium erat. Horum ex voluntate quum in publica bibliotheca universitatis Lipsiensis depositus esset, accuratissimam et splendidissimam paravi editionein hoc tilulo: Codex Friderico-Augustanus, sive Fragmenta Veteris Testamenti e codice graeco omnium qui in Europa supersunt facile antiquissimo. In oriente delexit, in patriam attulit, ad modum codicis edidit Const. Tischendorf. Lipsiae 1846. nn). Cui operi quae praefatus sum, in iis, ut cetera praeteream, de patria, de antiquitate, de correctoribus et nolis uberius explicatum est. Quibus de rebus breviter hoc loco dicturus plura quaerentem ad codicis editionem delegare possum.
Ac patria quidem codicis nescio an ipsa ea Aegypti pars fuerit ex qua LXX virorum interpretatio primum prodiisse traditur; quod si minus, certe in uno de monasteriis Aegypto inferiori proximis elaboratus videtur. Cf. §. 10.
"I pass to the second richest instrument of our apparatus, the Frederick-Augustan codex. When, in 1844, I visited the most famous libraries of Europe in the Eastern countries and visited the monasteries that flourished there, I discovered it in the remains of torn volumes thrown away. In the same year I brought the found treasure into the country from the east, and bearing it under the name of Frederick Augustus, king of Saxony, under whose auspices I had undertaken the journey, I gave it to those who at that time had the supreme plan of administering the country, not without a testimony of gratitude."
https://forums.carm.org/threads/are...f-ink-acid-reaction.15968/page-2#post-1277934
Bibliotheca Sacra - (1850 account) (1853 Journal) Prolegomena to Tischendorf's New Edition of the Septuagint
translated by Charles Short
https://books.google.com/books?id=NFEoAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA103
https://www.facebook.com/groups/sinaiticus/permalink/276987615811384/
§ 19. I pass to the second very important source from which material was drawn for our apparatus, the Friderico-Augustan MS. In the year 1844, having gone through the most renowned Libraries of Europe, I was visiting the East, and the monasteries still flourishing there, when I found this codex among some remains of MSS. that had been torn in pieces and thrown away. The treasure thus discovered I brought the same year from the East to my own land
(continues, we plan the full section)
Thus, even in 1853, Tischendorf still had not created the myth, the big lie, of saving the ms. from fire.
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