David Parker touches on the accessibility of the New Finds room for Sinaiticus fragments in the 1840s-1850s by Uspensky and Tischendorf!

Steven Avery

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David Parker

The evidence from the New Finds sheds further light on these events. A part of the leaf containing Genesis 23 and 24 was among the pieces taken by Uspenski to St Petersburg in the 1840s. A piece of the previous leaf is among the New Finds. Likewise, a fragment from Quire 11 is in St Petersburg, while parts of Quires 10 and 12 are among the New Finds. What Uspenski took to St Petersburg, and what were subsequently found in bindings, were from quires, or leaves close to quires, which were placed in a room in the monastery, perhaps shortly after his visit. - p. 121

Most significant is the fact that Tischendorf and Uspenski, on the visits to be chronicled in the next chapter, were to see materials adjacent to some of the leaves in the New Finds. This undoubtedly suggests that the materials found in 1975 and those studied since the nineteenth century were not completely separated even in the 1840s. It is probably safest to conclude that the room of the New Finds was not completely forgotten, but that there was some flow of materials in and out in the early nineteenth century. - p. 123
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Excellent!

Then we can add the special place of Genesis 24 in the acrostics controversies, and also the linguistic embarrassment of Hermas to Tischendorf. These are missed by Parker because he shows little awareness of the Simonides history, not even mentioning the Simonides Hermas and the retroversion accusations of Tischendorf and the James Donaldson review of the connections and the Latin substrata.

And I have made these connections for the New Finds, however David Parker is the first one in the scholarship world to also recognize these textual connection facts.

Also Uspensky took that curious washed out Judith page to St. Petersburg!
Why was anybody trying to wash a page? Was it a test page for special liquids? Or maybe for a planned palimpsest?
 
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