Tischendorf revisions in Cairo 1859 (Featherstone) - Time Magazine, Consulate is Russian soil - defies monks

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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.
 

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Religion: Stolen Codex?​

Monday, Feb. 05, 1934

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Soon after the British Museum bought from the Soviet Government its famed Codex Sinaiticus (TIME, Jan. 1), a campaign was begun to raise half the cost ($511,250) by public subscription. The Codex's vellum pages of Old and New Testament in Greek were placed on view in the British Museum. Peering at them an old lady cackled: "Have they ever been translated?"
"Yes, madam," replied an attendant. "You will find the King James Version an excellent translation."
Last week the British Museum was heckled from the monastery on Mt. Sinai where in 1844 the Codex was discovered by German Scholar Constantine Tischendorf. According to monks of the monastery, Tischendorf took the Codex to Cairo pleading that he must study it in a warm climate. He went to the Russian Consulate and, thus on Russian soil, defied the monks to get their Codex back. Tischendorf gave the manuscript to Tsar Alexander II who reimbursed the monastery with a paltry $3,500. Last week Porphyries III, Archbishop of Sinai, detailed all this in a long, indignant cablegram to the British Museum. The Archbishop demanded the Codex back, or else "substantial recognition" of its loss.
 
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