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| Mick Harper wrote: | Here's some unsorted Hatty material that I must have used at some time. I have certainly denounced the Codex Sinaiticus in my time but I can't find where.
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… Constantine Simonides (1820 – 1890) was Greek, and links nicely with the Mt Athos forgery centre
Simonides purported to have found The Shepherd of Hermas on Mount Athos and to have taken six copies to Europe. |
This Hermas part is from:
David Hernández de la Fuente
"The Poet and the Forger: On Nonnus' False Biography"
Simonides did have a Shepherd of Hermas from Mt. Athos, which led to an 1856 publication, and various controversies and also material in Memnon, 1857, by Simonides.
All this was before the 1859 Hermas discovery by Tischendorf in Sinaiticus and the texts are very similar. The Scottish scholar James Donaldson (1831-1915) emphasized linguistic anomalies and connections.
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"The coincidence seems almost more singular than can be accounted for by chance"
Literary forgeries (1907)
James Anson Farrer
http://books.google.com/books?id=4lgLAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA60
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The “six copies to Europe†does not ring a bell, and I will try to find out more about the reference.
Simonides did an Epistle of Barnabas publication (dated 1843 but no assured provenance before 1864) in which he purports to use six Barnabas manuscripts.
Steven
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Pete Jones
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| We have noticed the lack of concern with the laws of physics, especially the deterioration of parchment over time |
This made me ask the Internet hAIve Mind. It came up with this bit of circularity:
5. Expected Lifespan
In stable archival conditions: parchment can last thousands of years.
In fluctuating or poor conditions: noticeable deterioration can happen in decades.
In extreme neglect (damp, hot, exposed): total loss can occur within a century. |
Thousands, because that codex is so old!
Full link here: https://chatgpt.com/share/68cf03f7-6974-8004-b09e-4c51dd3e60b1
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Mick Harper
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In: London
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| Steven Avery wrote: | | I have been studying the Sinaiticus and Simonides info for over a decade |
My own studies in this general area must be of similar longevity. I have come to the conclusion there are no authentic manuscripts from the era c 400 to c. 1000 AD.
| The superb Codex Sinaiticus Project of 2009 really helped to springboard the studies. There was a Simonides conference in 2014 in Austria and a recent book in Greek on Constantine Simonides by Nikolos Farmakidis. |
So I am saved the bother of diving into any one of them. Except in so far as they can be goldmines for understanding the times and enthusiasms of the people actually responsible for producing them.
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| Pete Jones wrote: | | We have noticed the lack of concern with the laws of physics, especially the deterioration of parchment over time |
This made me ask the Internet hAIve Mind. It came up with this bit of circularity:
5. Expected Lifespan
In stable archival conditions: parchment can last thousands of years.
In fluctuating or poor conditions: noticeable deterioration can happen in decades.
In extreme neglect (damp, hot, exposed): total loss can occur within a century. |
Thousands, because that codex is so old!
Full link here: https://chatgpt.com/share/68cf03f7-6974-8004-b09e-4c51dd3e60b1 |
The circularity is very real. The faux acceptance of Sinaiticus has meant changing the theories of parchment and ink.
The new theories are like this:
"Look at Sinaiticus, ink does not have to fade over centuries, parchment can stay extremely flexible."
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