notes on the Charles Stewart 1859 biographical memoir of Simonides

[Steven Avery]

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Why is the Codex Sinaiticus full New Testament perfectly preserved ?

Not a single verse, word or even letter is gone, or unreadable, after a supposed 1500 years where it was said to be heavily used. (AD 350 to AD 1860 and then to today). It is often emphasized how old and tattered appears the manuscript, considering certain aspects of the Old Testament and...

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pl. 46

p. 52

Nope, this is Coislinianus
Those who are sceptical on these points can refer to pages 277 and 309 of the Greek Palaeography of the celebrated Montphocon,—

Bibliotheca bibliothecarum manuscriptorum nova: Tomus primus - Bernard de Montfaucon
https://books.google.com/books?id=Ej5oSHr50PEC&pg=PA151
https://books.google.com/books?id=qmNoAAAAcAAJ&pg=PR253-IA2



WRONG
p. 277
https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=ucm.5319074149&view=1up&seq=315
p. 309
https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=ucm.5319074149&view=1up&seq=347

p. 52

p. 53

In the next place, M. Rhancabcs asserts that it is physically impossible for manuscripts to last through so many ages.

p. 58

p. 60

 

[Steven Avery]

Check for the Montfaucon pages.

 

[Steven Avery]

Is this Oikonomos - Simonides accuses of plagiarism


OEconomus

p. 64

p. 69

 

[Steven Avery]

Carm
https://forums.carm.org/threads/cod...-color-differences.14083/page-13#post-1684096


A Biographical Memoir of Constantine Simonides, Dr. Ph., of Stageira, with a Brief Defence of the Authenticity of His Manuscripts.
By Charles Stewart
Published August,1859

Page 51

“Of all the foregoing manuscripts, it has been asserted that the sheets of parchment on which they [= Simonides forgeries] are written have been cut out of ancient prayer-books, or books of offices for the monks. Such an assertion as this is easily refuted, for the sheets everywhere bear the same venerable and faded COLOUR OF ANTIQUITY; whilst, if they had been cut out from old service-books, or other ecclesiastical writings, they must have had the inside much cleaner and apparently newer than the outside, because the inner part, having been shut out from external influences for a longer time than the outside, must necessarily have been cleaner, and the outside, from constant friction and contact with the hands of the reader, and above nil, from atmospheric influence, must have had a more ancient and worn appearance. The most cursory inspection of the manuscripts [= his forgeries] will demonstrate the absurdity of such a statement, for it is clear that nil the sheets of each separate manuscript were out from one and the same skin, and that they all have the same natural texture and artificial preparation..."

some notes on Nikolas Farmakidis book

incompatible (contradictory) or incomparable Simon Hadjikostas and Maria Kalafata, special tuberosities IX official and occult libraries of Athos ============ According to the German journalist Rüdiger Schaper, Konstantinos Simonides was first and foremost a great patriot, even if, according...

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Sinaiticus 1859 St. Petersburg pages are "yellow with age"

I am not aware that old vellum/parchment takes on color because of age. Here is Scrivener: A full Collation of the Codex Sinaiticus with the received text of the New Textament (1864) https://books.google.com/books?id=v-JUmBD5zIcC&pg=PP38 "The vellum leaves, now almost yellow in colour ..."...

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