Hi Jona!
An especially important manuscript if it was created on Mt. Athos at the Panteleimon monastery c. 1840.
look at the amazing parchment
see the BBC Beauty of Books video flexibly turning pages
read Morozov’s 1914 paleographic evaluation
consider the “coincidence” of the 1855 Shepherd of Hermas
study Simonides narrative, using the Zosimas 1821 Moscow Bible
And the actual major scribe confessed to selling it to Constantius in Constantinople, receiving 25,000 piastres.
And you can easily see the artificial yellowing applied to the 1859 St. Petersburg section (explained in 1862 in the Simonides controversies).
And Tischendorf was still able to pull off the textual con of the millennium, duping the willingly naive textual critics!
Exposure really highlighted by the incredible 2009 Codex
Sinaiticus Project - missed by the Guild only due to “deeply entrenched” scholarship.
Quite an amazing manuscript!
Steven
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