Hansard - Sinaiticus used as bogus exemplar for longevity of parchment - science upside-down - pristine

Steven Avery

Steven Avery

Administrator

https://www.purebibleforum.com/inde...gevity-of-parchment-science-upside-down.4680/

https://www.purebibleforum.com/inde...e-condition-manuscripts-leningrad-codex.4660/

https://www.purebibleforum.com/inde...science-requires-palaeographic-vigilance.255/

https://www.purebibleforum.com/inde...hment-science-and-professional-integrity.252/


===========================

https://hansard.parliament.uk/commons/2016-04-20/debates/16042043000001/RecordCopiesOfActs

Let us think of other great documents such as the Dead Sea scrolls, the Lindisfarne gospels and the Domesday Book—all were written on vellum. The Codex Sinaiticus in the British Library was commissioned by the Emperor Constantine in 350 AD. We can look at it today and turn its pages; it is exactly as it was when it was written, and it is as clear as anything.
 
Last edited:
Steven Avery

Steven Avery

Administrator
Europe’s leading expert on the subject, Dr Henk Porck of the Netherlands national library, has gone on record as saying that current ageing tests for paper



“cannot be reliably predicted by means of the present artificial ageing tests.”
 
Steven Avery

Steven Avery

Administrator
Mary Wellesley
The Gilded Page: The Secret Lives of Medieval Manuscripts (2021)
https://books.google.com/books?id=2SAbEAAAQBAJ&pg=PT132

Parchment is built to last. In this it is an emblem of a predisposable culture. The parchment pages of the Codex Sinaiticus, made nearly 1,700 years ago, in circa 325-375 ce, are still almost pristine. Cheap twentieth-century paperbacks, with glued spines and paper that withers like an autumn leaf, often present a greater challenge to library conservation departments than parchment manuscripts. And parchment, unlike many of the disposable materials we use today, was often recycled. It was cut up to make new bindings, fill holes, or repair other damage. Sometimes it was scraped clean of its writing and used again, leaving ghostly traces of previous writing on manuscript pages— palimpsests—for scholars to uncover.

The name of the script derives from its half
similarity to the Greek uncial script that was used in
manuscripts such as the Codex Sinaiticus (an important Bible
manuscript dating to c. 330-360). Jerome criticised it “for being
so luxurious and costly of materials and effort,” noting that “its
letters might be an inch high.”20
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Top