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Note: Peter Malik gives a fine historical account.
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Milne & Skeat
III. THE SCRIBES: HISTORICAL RETROSPECT
Tischendorf’s work as a palaeographer can be regarded from two
points of view. Firstly, as a decipherer he has no superior, and
scholars may rest assured that the text he has provided is in all
essentials sound. Secondly, as a judge of script he compels our
admiration, and in this respect, too, apart from the error of in-
venting scribe C, he has well and truly laid the foundations of all
future investigation of the Codex. The detection of this error has,
however, placed the study of the hands upon a firmer basis and
opened the way to novel and important conclusions, especially on
the relation between scribe and colophon.
The account of the hands given by Tischendorf, Prolegomena, pp. 8-8*, is repeated almost verbatim in two later publications, Novum Testamentum Sinaiticum, 1863, p. xxi, and Novum Testamentum Graece ex Sinaitico Codice, 1865, p. xxx. In no case does he give any details of the characteristics of the various hands he professed to identify, and we must assume that, in the main, he was guided solely by the general appearance of the script. He distinguished four scribes, among whom he apportioned the writing of the book as follows:
Notitia editionis codicis bibliorum sinaitici: Auspiciis imp. Alexandri II. susceptae. Accedit catalogus cod. nuper ex oriente Petropolin perlatorum item Origenes Scholia in Proverbia Salomonis 1860
https://books.google.com/books?id=DpI4EOWye7MC&pg=RA4-PA7
Novum Testamentum Sinaiticum, 1863, p. xxi
https://books.google.com/books?id=LBqHZmhzLgwC&pg=PA12
https://books.google.com/books?id=HcGbOyQLuagC&pg=PA7-IA1
Novum Testamentum Graece ex Sinaitico Codice, 1865, p. xxx.
https://books.google.com/books?id=wZQBy_jy_mMC&pg=PR29
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Milne & Skeat
III. THE SCRIBES: HISTORICAL RETROSPECT
Tischendorf’s work as a palaeographer can be regarded from two
points of view. Firstly, as a decipherer he has no superior, and
scholars may rest assured that the text he has provided is in all
essentials sound. Secondly, as a judge of script he compels our
admiration, and in this respect, too, apart from the error of in-
venting scribe C, he has well and truly laid the foundations of all
future investigation of the Codex. The detection of this error has,
however, placed the study of the hands upon a firmer basis and
opened the way to novel and important conclusions, especially on
the relation between scribe and colophon.
The account of the hands given by Tischendorf, Prolegomena, pp. 8-8*, is repeated almost verbatim in two later publications, Novum Testamentum Sinaiticum, 1863, p. xxi, and Novum Testamentum Graece ex Sinaitico Codice, 1865, p. xxx. In no case does he give any details of the characteristics of the various hands he professed to identify, and we must assume that, in the main, he was guided solely by the general appearance of the script. He distinguished four scribes, among whom he apportioned the writing of the book as follows:
Notitia editionis codicis bibliorum sinaitici: Auspiciis imp. Alexandri II. susceptae. Accedit catalogus cod. nuper ex oriente Petropolin perlatorum item Origenes Scholia in Proverbia Salomonis 1860
https://books.google.com/books?id=DpI4EOWye7MC&pg=RA4-PA7
Novum Testamentum Sinaiticum, 1863, p. xxi
https://books.google.com/books?id=LBqHZmhzLgwC&pg=PA12
https://books.google.com/books?id=HcGbOyQLuagC&pg=PA7-IA1
Novum Testamentum Graece ex Sinaitico Codice, 1865, p. xxx.
https://books.google.com/books?id=wZQBy_jy_mMC&pg=PR29
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