Hesiod scroll

[Steven Avery]

Marshall Kibbey
https://x.com/marshallkibbey/status/1101981063583354880?s=61&t=CN7Xq1azV7DXPhFnIj20TA

Litho facsimile of a few lines from the boustrophedon Hesiod scroll sold to Thomas Phillipps in 1854 by the now notorious forger Constantine Simonides. Published by Phillipps at his Middle Hill Press (Phill. MS 13878). See some real Simonides fakes @BeineckeLibrary’s Bibliomania.

 

[Steven Avery]

https://www.purebibleforum.com/index.php?threads/1853-kallinikos-simonides-pdf-scrubbed-compare-to-lilia-biography-blurb-and-canfora-3-pages.812/#post-1776

 

[Steven Avery]

Hesiod Aristeus and the Golden Verses of Pythagoras, the manuscripts which Madden had rejected.

Carm
1849 this same man brought forward some parchments which he said he had found in a monastery, and which he tried to palm off as writings of Homer, Hesiod, and Anacreon, more ancient than any others extant. These manuscripts attracted much attention.

As for the writing, Hesiod's text is written in a strophe, something unjustified for a manuscript of the 3rd century

Such a sensational list - 81 titles, from Homer and Hesiod up to the later Byzantine age - as to induce Muravíev to involve first the Imperial Library of St. Petersburg, in the person of its Director, and then the class of History and Philology of the Academy of Sciences Russian.