ink-acid holes in Alexandrinus and Vaticanus - (not in Sinaiticus) - Paul Canart, Linquist Software - Payne et al

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Codex Alexandrinus : Hē Kainē Diathēkē
Benjamin Harris Cowper (1822-1904)
Carl Gottfried Woide (1725-1790)
https://books.google.com/books?id=a6kGAAAAQAAJ&pg=PR5

Since .its arrival in this country, the volume has been rebound, the leaves have been numbered, and the modern Chapters have been indicated; — these figures are all the work of Patrick Junius. The nature of the ink, and the great age of the manuscript, have in many places caused the partial or almost total disappearance of the characters, and they cannot he read without the aid of a lens and in a strong light. Moreover,

the ferruginous matter contained in the ink has produced an infinite number of minute holes in the parchment, giving it the appearance of lacework,

and which occasionally, but not so often as could be expected, add seriously to the difficulty of the reading. These holes are not in all the leaves but only in a portion of them, and the vellum is frequently more legible on one side than on the other. The inscriptions and subscriptions to the respective books, as far as they remain, are all ancient, but some must be referred to the second hand.
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Notitia codicis Alexandrini cum variis ejus lectionibus omnibus. Recudendam .
Woide - Latin - 1788
https://books.google.com/books?id=qcNIAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA21

Literary Churchman reviews Woide (1861)
https://books.google.com/books?id=784FAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA132

And many others talk of the lace-work.

A Study of the Gospels in Codex Alexandrinus: Codicology, Palaeography, and Scribal Hands (2014)
William Andrew Smith
https://books.google.com/books?id=pWHPBAAAQBAJ&pg=PA39

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Six Lectures (1875)
Scrivener
https://books.google.com/books?id=MAE-AAAAYAAJ&pg=PA52
The vellum has fallen into holes in many places, and since the ink peels off for very age whensoever a leaf is touched a little roughly, no one
is allowed to handle the manuscript except for good reasons.
 
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Steven Avery

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PBF
https://www.purebibleforum.com/inde...-vellum-so-as-to-leave-holes.3229/#post-13420

From the Jesse R. Grenz paper:

Paul Canart
“the overly acidic ink has more than once gnawed, even punctured the parchment" - p. 21

Canart, Paul. “Le Vaticanus graecus 1209: notice paléographique et codicologique.” Pages 19–45 in Le manuscrit B de la Bible (Vaticanus graecus 1209). Edited by Patrick Andrist. Histoire du texte biblique 7. Lausanne: Éditions du Zèbre, 2009.

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This search leads to goodies
‘Le Vaticanus graecus 1209: notice paléographique et codicologique.”

Vaticanus info
https://www.linguistsoftware.com/vaticanus.htm
https://www.linguistsoftware.com/payneessays.htm

https://pinakes.irht.cnrs.fr/notices/bibliographie/JUGQJ8C5/

French! 30 pages

Maybe previews only free
https://searchworks.stanford.edu/view/4271397

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Best book? - Mercati
Bibliorum Ss. graecorum codex Vaticanus 1209 / ed. J. Mercati, Milan, 1904-1907

Bibliorum sacrorum Graecorum Codex Vaticanus B / reproduction en fac similé du manuscrit vat. Graecus 1209 ; Paul Canart, Pierre-Maurice Bogaert, Stephan Pisano, Roma : Istituto poligrafico e Zecca dello Stato, 1999

Le manuscrit B de la Bible : Vaticanus graecus 1209 : introduction au fac-similé, actes du Colloque de Genève (11 juin 2001), contributions supplémentaires / édité par Patrick Andrist, Lausanne : Éd. du Zèbre, 2009

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Grenz

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56 Clemens and Graham, Introduction, 25; cf. Smith, Alexandrinus, 39.
 
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