did Simonides produce any manuscripts that were in an uncial / majuscule Greek font

[Steven Avery]

did simonides do any manuscripts that were in an Uncial Majuscule Greek font


Constantine Simonides produced and forged numerous Greek manuscripts written in ancient-style uncial (majuscule) scripts. [1, 2]

Uncial Forgeries and Calligraphy

• Skillful Scribe: Simonides was a brilliant 19th-century Greek paleographer and calligrapher who mastered ancient handwriting styles. [1, 2]
• Purported Antiquities: He created and marketed several spurious codices and papyri written in majuscule/uncial characters, claiming they dated back to early Christian or classical periods. [1, 2, 3]
• The Bradshaw Sample: To prove his physical capacity to mimic ancient hands, Simonides even wrote an uncial sample letter for the Cambridge librarian Henry Bradshaw. [1, 2]
• The Sinaiticus Claim: He famously (and falsely) claimed he hand-wrote the ancient Codex Sinaiticus in uncial script as a teenager in 1839, a claim thoroughly dismissed by modern scholarship and material analysis. [1, 2, 3, 4]

Would you like to know more about specific uncial forgeries attributed to Simonides, or the paleographical methods used by experts to expose them?

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  Updated American Standard Version
  
  Codex Sinaiticus—Refuting the Forgery Claims and Conspiracy ...
  Crucially, it was textual critics themselves who exposed the forgery. By contrast, Sinaiticus has been studied in depth for over 1...
  
  
  
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  textus-receptus.com
  
  Constantine Simonides - Textus Receptus
  Simonides lived in the monasteries on Mount Athos between 1839 and 1841 and again in 1852, during which time he acquired some of t...
  
  
  
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  YouTube·Word Magazine
  
  WM 186: Is Codex Sinaiticus a Forgery?
  name it's s-i-m-o-n-i-d-e-s i guess it could be simonides or simonides uh i'll probably pronounce it uh simonides. and constantine...
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