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Tischendorf account in 1859 in correspondence
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Yesterday he collected the last 125 folia from the monastery. His doctor and pharmacist (named Voss, from Leipzig, who calls the bookseller in Leipzig his uncle) write about fifty folia per week. But he tells his wife that he still has hope of taking away the precious MS as a gift for their imperial Majesties. Just yesterday both of the monastery superiors fully confirmed him in this hope. But the matter must be presented to the others —the subordinates, so Tischendorf understands, of the superior in Cairo, Agathangelos– who are coming (probably next week) from Constantinople and Wallachia for the election of a new archbishop. In hope of this, Tischendorf has stopped with the revision, since he could revise the remaining folia on the return trip.
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finds the costly pearl. He would have preferred things to go more simply, but there is no changing the situation now. It will all be a great triumphal procession for him. Everything is the Lord's doing. In the meantime, the copying is finished, but he must now revise everything.