Constantinos Simonidis in the Gennadius Library (2011)PureBibleForum
Notes on Simonides publication lists
Gennadius Library
https://www.purebibleforum.com/index.php/threads/a.599/post-1253
... collections of considerable extent ...
British Library (London), the
Bodleian Library (Oxford), and the
libraries of Harvard University (Cambridge, Mass.).
In Greece, books by Simonidis are kept in the
University Library of Crete (4 items), the
University Library of Thessaloniki (5 items), the
Korais Library of Chios (I item), the
Korgialenios Library of Cephalonia (I item), and the
Municipal Center for Historical Research and Documentation of Volos (I item).
In Athens, a few copies of Simonidis' works can also be found in the
Gennadius Library (many copies - added to list as it was the subject of the article)
National Library, the
University Library, the
Library of Parliament, the
Library of the Academy of Athens, the
Library of the Benaki Museum, and the
Library of the German Archaeological Institute.
A census of the extant copies all over the world is currently being carried out.
Anna
12 The genuine or fake manuscripts sold by Simonides in Europe are not cataloged. There are those in
the National Library (Athens),
the British Library (London),
the Bodleian Library (Oxford),
the Austrian National Library (Vienna)
in the Bibliotheque de Chatres (France),
the City Museum (Liverpool) and seemingly also in other collections.
SA Note
Gennadius (Gennadeion) in Athens has a fine collection referenced in the Pasquale Massimo Pinto writings.
University of Thessalonika supplied the very critical Epistle of Barnabas
In Germany, Leipzig University might especially help with the Hermas editions, and they have the Codex Friderico-Augustanus. THe Sinaiticus fragments in St. Petersburg and Sinai are also very important. However, one scholar, I think one of the Italians, wrote to me that he had tried, and they found nothing in Leipzig.
The Fry collection: papers relating to B. W. Newton, S. P. Tregelles, F. W. Wyatt, A. C. Fry, and others, at the Christian Brethren Archive of the John Rylands University Library of Manchester
See the Stunt paper on Tregelles. This archive may have some good material.
The Grolier Club resources in Manhattan, NYC
http://www.grolierclub.org/LibraryAMC.Simonides.htm
The Grolier Club resources in Manhattan, NYC
http://www.grolierclub.org/LibraryAMC.Simonides.htm
https://web.archive.org/web/20060929111411/http://www.grolierclub.org/LibraryAMC.Simonides.htm
RLIN ID No. NYGG01-A18 Creator Simonides, Constantine, 1820-1867. Title Papers relating to the Codex Sinaiticus, probably forged by Constantine Simonides, ca. 1856-1863. Physical Description 1 box (.25 linear ft.) Historical/Biographical Note Constantine Simonides was an exceptionally skillful calligrapher who is alleged to have sold spurious documents (as well as possibly some that were genuine) in England in the 1850s and 1860s. Among his clients were Sir Frederick Madden at the British Museum and Sir Thomas Phillipps. Simonides resided in the monasteries on Mount Athos between 1839 and 1841 and again in 1852, during which time he may have acquired or sold some of the manuscripts that he later sold. He was in England between 1853 and 1855 and then in France and Germany. In 1862 Simonides published in English journals his claim to have written the Codex Sinaiticus, which the scholar Constantine von Tischendorf had discovered at Mount Sinai some years earlier and maintained had been be written during the 4th century C.E. Scope and Contents Papers relating to Codex Sinaiticus and Constantine Simonides’ assertion that he had forged it. Includes manuscript letters dated 1856-1863. Facsimile (?) of manuscript. Letter to A.N.L. Munby from Andreas Mayor at Sothebys regarding the Codex. Includes offprints about Simonides and the manuscript. Names Mayor, Andreas. Correspondence. Munby, A. N. L. (Alan Noel Latimer), 1913-1974. Correspondence. Subjects Simonides, Constantine, 1820-1867. Bible. Greek. Codex sinaiticus. Forgeries. Forgery of manuscripts. Location Grolier Club, 47 East 60th Street, New York, N.Y. 10022-1098. Text/Archive info from
Constantine Simonides: Papers Relating to the Codex Sinaiticus, ca. 1856-1863
RLIN ID No.
NYGG01-A18
Creator
Simonides, Constantine, 1820-1867.
Title
Papers relating to the Codex Sinaiticus, probably forged by Constantine Simonides, ca. 1856-1863.
Physical Description
1 box (.25 linear ft.)
Historical/Biographical Note
Constantine Simonides was an exceptionally skillful calligrapher who is alleged to have sold spurious documents (as well as possibly some that were genuine) in England in the 1850s and 1860s. Among his clients were Sir Frederick Madden at the British Museum and Sir Thomas Phillipps. Simonides resided in the monasteries on Mount Athos between 1839 and 1841 and again in 1852, during which time he may have acquired or sold some of the manuscripts that he later sold. He was in England between 1853 and 1855 and then in France and Germany. In 1862 Simonides published in English journals his claim to have written the Codex Sinaiticus, which the scholar Constantine von Tischendorf had discovered at Mount Sinai some years earlier and maintained had been be written during the 4th century C.E.
Scope and Contents
Papers relating to Codex Sinaiticus and Constantine Simonides’ assertion that he had forged it. Includes manuscript letters dated 1856-1863. Facsimile (?) of manuscript. Letter to A.N.L. Munby from Andreas Mayor at Sothebys regarding the Codex. Includes offprints about Simonides and the manuscript.
Names
Mayor, Andreas. Correspondence.
Munby, A. N. L. (Alan Noel Latimer), 1913-1974. Correspondence.
Subjects
Simonides, Constantine, 1820-1867.
Bible. Greek. Codex sinaiticus. Forgeries.
Forgery of manuscripts.
Location
Grolier Club, 47 East 60th Street, New York, N.Y. 10022-1098.
Malcolm Choat has used this material in his presentations.
Australia, Melbourne, State Library of Victoria (includes the Stewart Biographical Memoir)
Henry Deane, John Eliot Hodgkin, Charles Stewart
http://www.worldcat.org/title/letters/oclc/224729292
"I think it was as the accession number is H17839 which is in Box 109/4(a-d), but in the 91 pages copied are materials from both H17838 [Uranius] and H17840 [Henry Deane's report] (only H17839 comes up in their online search"
Plus the talk on Feb 27, 2018 by Malcolm Choat at Macquerie will utilize this material.
The PDF from the library includes about 60 pages of English correspondence, the handwritings are not the easiest to decipher, and could use perusal.
They also have the 30 page palimpsest report from the Royal Society, which is also online.
Yet no biography. (That is also online.)
Newspaper cuttings relating to Constantine Simonides.
British Library
http://www.worldcat.org/title/newspaper-cuttings-relating-to-constantine-simonides/oclc/504377913&referer=brief_results
Robert Curzon, traveller and book collector (1983)
Meridel Holland
https://www.escholar.manchester.ac.uk/api/datastream?publicationPid=uk-ac-man-scw:1m1687&datastreamId=POST-PEER-REVIEW-PUBLISHERS-DOCUMENT.PDF
British Library MS. 42502 - The Simonides Papers (J. E. Hodgkin Simonides Papers)
Simonides, Constantine (1824-1867) Forger of Egyptian Papyri
Add MS 42502
http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/rd/N13584593
1853-61: misc papers and letters to Sir Thomas Phillipps
Oxford University: Bodleian Library, Special Collections MSS Phillipps-Robinson (NRA 26260 Phillipps)
http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/rd/N13835654
http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/c/F67536
This 1956 article could be helpful:
The collector J. E. Hodgkin, who had befriended Simonides late in life when he was "discredited and almost destitute",16
16 Quoted by Munby, Phillipps Studies: IV (Cambridge 1956), p. 118
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BL Sinaiticus notes
http://archive.is/nuzZ3#selection-206.1-206.2
"Nothing is certainly known of the history of the manuscript before the 19th cent."
... Simonides seems to have spoken about the date of Sinaiticus prior to September 1862, in so far as Tregelles knew of this theory before then. He spoke of it to J.E. Hodgkin in 1860 and in a letter to Sir Thornas Phillipps on August 2nd 1861. (See British Library Add MS 52502A folio 348 and the Phillipps Robinson MS. collection in the Bodleian Library).
Special note about the lithograph material of Odessa and Moscow (likely in the Hodgkin papers)Pasquale Massimo Pinto
https://books.google.com/books?id=go7fDgAAQBAJ&pg=PA115
The reconstruction of Simonides’ years in Victorian England relies first of all on a number of unpublished manuscript documents, the most important of which are the letters to, from and about Simonides included in the manuscript Additional 42502AB of the British Library and originally from the personal archive of John Eliot Hodgkin, probably Simonides’ chief patron in England. The papers of the book-collector Thomas Phillipps and the librarian Frederick Madden that are in the British Library and the Bodleian Library of Oxford, also deserve to be mentioned. Next is the information that can be collected from what Simonides himself wrote both in the prefaces of the works published in England, such as the Facsimiles of certain Portions of the Gospel of St. Matthew etc. (1861) or The Periplus of Hannon (1864), and in newspapers. Finally, at least three scholarly contributions must be taken into consideration: a chapter included by the amateur historian James Anson Farrer in his 1907 book on Literary Forgeries, based on the papers of Hodgkin; the substantial chapter devoted to Simonides by the book scholar Alan N.L. Munby in his stunning work on Thomas Phillipps, published in the 1950s (the “Phillipps Studies”); and the book about the Codex Sinaiticus and the Simonides affair written by the New Testament scholar James K. Elliott in 1982.5
5 See, respectively: Farrer 1907, Munby 1956, Elliott 1982.
Munby, Alan Noel Latimer (1956), The Formation of the Phillipps Library from 1841 to 1872 (“Phillipps Studies”, 4), Cambridge, esp. 114-131.
Worldcat, JStor, EOD, German and more
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