Steven Avery
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The writer has a fine reputation, and he was close to the times and would have spoken to principals from the controversy times. As an aside, the trimming of the ms. by Tischendorf was not well known.
There could be support material in the English archive spots.
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Falconer Madan (1851-1935)
Bodleian librarian
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Falconer_Madan
Books in Manuscript (1893)
Falconer Madan
https://books.google.com/books?id=o_s8AAAAYAAJ&pg=PA124
Thanks to my BDVD fan club and support team for noting the principal error above.
Always remember, the principal is our pal!
There could be support material in the English archive spots.
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Falconer Madan (1851-1935)
Bodleian librarian
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Falconer_Madan
Books in Manuscript (1893)
Falconer Madan
https://books.google.com/books?id=o_s8AAAAYAAJ&pg=PA124
After this Simonides appeared only once with any prominence before the public, when in 1861 he boldly asserted that he himself had written the whole of the Codex Sinaiticus, which Tischendorf had brought in 1856 from the Monastery of St. Catherine on Mount Sinai. The statement was, of course, received with the utmost incredulity ; but Simonides asserted, not only that he had written it, but that, in view of the probable scepticism of scholars, he had placed certain private signs on particular leaves of the codex. When pressed to specify these marks, he gave a list of the leaves on which were to be found his initials or other monogram. The test was a fair one, and the MS., which was at St. Petersburg, was carefully inspected. Every leaf designated by Simonides was found to be imperfect at the part where the mark was to have been found. Deliberate mutilation by an enemy, said his friends. But many thought that the wily Greek had acquired through private friends a note of some imperfect leaves in the MS., and had made unscrupulous use of the information.
Thanks to my BDVD fan club and support team for noting the principal error above.
Always remember, the principal is our pal!
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