the Brugsch Leviticus fragments (and more theft from St. Catherines) and Gregoriades fragments

[Steven Avery]

Gather info here.

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Note also

Tischendorf also spoke of the annoying notices of Brugsch and of the
suspicions which thereby fell upon him (Tischendorf)
Featherstone

 

[Steven Avery]

232 | Journal for Manuscript Studies

From Sinai to California: The Trajectory of Greek NT Codex 712 from the UCLA Young Research Library’s Special Collectionsfrom the UCLA Young Research Library’s Special Collections (170/347)(170/347)
Julia Verkholantsev University of Pennsylvania,
juliaver@sas.upenn.edu
https://repository.upenn.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1011&context=mss_sims

Tischendorf had no hand in stealing our manuscript since he did not travel to Sinai or Cairo aer 1861. But Tischendorf was not the only one pursuing Sinaitic treasures. Despite the vigilance of the monks, some lucky and/or thieving individuals succeeded in exporting manuscripts om Sinai to the West. In 1865, a Professor-Egyptologist Heinrich Brugsch, then consul in Cairo, and in 1871 his colleague Georg Ebers, traveled to St. Catherine’s on a manuscript hunt and tried to purchase some Greek manuscripts from the Sinai monks, reportedly without success. 32 Yet in 1866 the Berlin Library recorded a substantial acquisition of manuscripts from Sinai brought by Brugsch. 33 A note in the catalog description of an eighth- or ninth-century Greek lectionary manuscript fragment, no. 267 (as well as a number of other manuscripts), says: “These leaves have come to the library from the Sinai Monastery through the mediation of Consul Brugsch.”34 Yet, in his travelogue published in 1866, Brugsch again declares that he was unsuccessful in taking hold of any manuscripts during his visit to the monastery

 

[Steven Avery]

Scribes and Correctors Milne and Skeat

P. GREGORIADES, Ἡ Ἱερὰ Μονὴ τοῦ Σινᾶ κατὰ τὴν τοπογραφικήν, ἱστορικὴν καὶ διοικητικὴν αὐτῆς ἔποψιν, Jerusalem 1875, p. 91-92