blotches on the Kirsopp Lake pictures - the ink is much bolder than the CSP

Steven Avery

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Steven Avery

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https://archive.org/details/codexsinaiticus_201907/page/n83/mode/2up

Alternate Kirsopp Lake
https://archive.org/details/per_the...w-te_helen-and-kirsopp-lake/page/n92/mode/2up

Mark, 16:1 - 16:8 / Luke, 1:1 - 1:18 library: BL folio: 228 scribe: D
https://codexsinaiticus.org/en/manu...&book=35&chapter=1&lid=en&side=r&zoomSlider=0

Lake has bold ink where 2009 CSP is faded!
Did it fade over a century?
Is this common?

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Close up it is still faded

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The palaeography determinations of Codex Sinaiticus have had very little input from physical in-person manuscript examinations. Generally until recently the "consensus" was reached using the Tischendorf typeset books, which were designed to hide features that might cause problems, and there were photos c. 1911. (By then the consensus had been established by the big Tischendorf push, along with Westcott and Hort using the early date for their textual criticism theories.)

And I was comparing the Kirsopp Lake pictures of Sinaiticus c. 1911 with the Codex Sinaiticus pictures that went online in 2009. I will put one page below.

Notice:
much darker ink on the Kirsopp Lake pics
blotches

Was Kirsopp Lake using techniques to enhance the ink? Has there been ink fade in the century since the pics? Any ideas you have, very much appreciated!

SOURCES
Codex Sinaiticus Petropolitanus, The New Testament the Epistle of Barnabas and the Shepherd of Hermas
Kirsopp Lake
https://archive.org/.../codexsinaiticu.../page/n105/mode/2up

Codex Sinaiticus Project
Q78-8v Luke, 14:3 - 14:34 library: BL folio: 239b scribe: A CSP
https://codexsinaiticus.org/en/manuscript.aspx...
 
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