Tregelles relates a Tischendorf Sinai miracle

[Steven Avery]

Samuel Prideaux Tregelles shared from his Tischendorf contact and he was talking about the red cloth story (although it was not yet red, simply a cloth):

An Introduction to the critical study and knowledge of the Holy Scriptures (1860) - https://archive.org/stream/introductiontocr04horniala#page/776/mode/2up
Journal of Sacred Literature - https://books.google.com/books?id=hbURAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA486

"the whole New Testament, without even the smallest defect"

Tregelles added, clearly from Tischendorf (Tregelles was not Embellish, he was a straight-shooter):

All the leaves were loose,—many of them were torn into separate parts, —but, when arranged, there was the New Testament complete, and much of the Old.

Many elements of the Tischendorf stories that are clearly fabrications of convenience. e.g. The "saved from burning" myth that was created about 1844, which makes no sense -- parchment does not burn and the supposed discarded fragments were actually full folios in beautiful, pristine condition. Yet, even today, only a few writers will hint that Tischendorf simply stole the leaves.

We find this one above almost humorous in the expected gullibility of the hearers or readers.

Hundreds of leaves supposedly had been lying around Sinai in 1844. No interest in the ms. And now again, here in 1959 the leaves were "torn into separate parts".

And the gullible textual world was supposed to simply accept that, throughout all this disarray and disassembling, Tischendorf rearranged the jigsaw puzzle of fragments, and every page of of the New Testament was there, in perfect condition, after the 1650 years.

Do "textual critics" like buying bridges?

Weren't they at all interested in why Tischendorf was fabricating the whole account?

Did they ever ask why?
Today we can easily look at the two sections of the ms., Leipzig-1844 and Russia->England-1859, and read the history, and work out the Sinaiticus puzzle.

 

[Steven Avery]

The Eclectic Magazine of Foreign Literature, Science, and Art, Volume 60 (1863)
The Sinai Bible
https://books.google.com/books?id=AxNLAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA480

When Dr. Tischendorf opened the red cloth in the monastery, he saw before him a pile of ancient parchment leaves, connected and numbered for the most part in uniform groups, but without lid or wrapper of any kind; the leaves therefore, as might be expected, not always at home, and the whole written over with those charming Greek capitals which not even the most delicate typography of our times is able to surpass. The scholar's eye and hand soon righted all that was wrong in the mechanical condition of the manuscript ; and in his Notitia, and still more fully in the Prolegomena to his printed editions of the text, he has given his readers precise information on all points of interest relating to tho material of which the Codex consists, the disposition of its several parts, the character of the writing, the Scripture books or fractions of books comprised in it, and whatever else of the same sort is necessarv to an intelligent estimate of its value.