manuscripts at St. Catherine's - brittle and fragile - Sinai Palimpsests Project

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PBF INDEX - pics of various manuscripts, comparisons, yellow and brittle, the St Catherine's manuscripts
https://www.purebibleforum.com/inde...d-brittle-the-st-catherines-manuscripts.4452/

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CARM
https://forums.carm.org/threads/con...aps-in-baskets-etc.13467/page-11#post-1283921

Steven Avery said:
We do not have any 3rd century parchment manuscripts, not sure what the oldest manuscript is from Sinai, possibly the Old Syriac, Syriac Sinaiticus, a palimpsest. It has some Alexandrian corruptions, such as the missing Mark ending and the missing Pericope Adulterae.
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Sinai Palimpsests Project
Technologies
http://sinaipalimpsests.org/technol... Sinai,state of preservation – its fragility.

“The spectral imaging of Sinai palimpsests begins with solving the problem of how to support brittle ancient manuscripts during spectral imaging. The variable that most effects the time required to image a Sinai palimpsest is its state of preservation – its fragility.”
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Good thing that the large manuscript that left Sinai in 1844 and 1859 never had that problem of brittleness and fragility.
 
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The Monastery of St. Catherine and the Mount Sinai Expedition (1952)
Aziz S. Atiya

Other examples of great antiquity are the
Palimpsests of Mount Sinai. Owing to shortage
of parchment at certain times, scribes dismantled
older manuscripts, erased their ancient scripts
by means of rubbing the parchment with pumice
stone and probably washing it with a somewhat
caustic material, and finally re-used it for writing
new books of their own. Nevertheless, the older
scripts show underneath the new in varying de-
grees of clarity. The palimpsest leaves are gener-
ally brittle and are as a rule irregular in form and
size according to their provenance.

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What explains the MIRACULOUS preservation of Sinaitcus?

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Manuscript Imaging at St. Catherine’s Monastery
Roger Easton - PICS (2022)
https://www.cis.rit.edu/~rlepci/CHI_course/StC_2022-04-13_CHI.pdf

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2016 - Facebook Eureka!
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2012
Deciphering Ancient Manuscripts
https://theworld.org/stories/2012-10-16/deciphering-ancient-manuscripts-saint-catherines-monastery
Mike Phelps is director of the Sinai Palimpsests Project


Recovering Hidden Texts
Eric A. Powell - 2016
https://www.archaeology.org/issues/207-1603/features/4155-egypt-monastery-palimpsests

Sometime in the eighth century, a monk at St. Catherine’s Monastery in Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula was preparing to transcribe a book of the Bible in Arabic and needed fresh parchment. New parchment was an expensive commodity at the time and was difficult to obtain, especially for a humble monk copyist living in a remote desert monastery. Luckily for him, the venerable religious community had a massive library that included books that were no longer in use. These manuscripts, some written in extinct languages, or thought to be unimportant, were valued only for their potential as sources of recycled parchment. No one in the monastery would have thought twice, for instance, when, while searching for writing material, the monk plucked out of the collection an ancient Greek text that had gone unread for a generation or more. None of his brothers would have batted an eye as he used a knife to carefully scrape away the centuries-old ink. Soon, the words were gone and the parchment was ready for the monk’s fresh transcription of Bible verses. Today, erasing an ancient text seems an incalculable loss, but to the eighth-century scribe, it was an act of devotion and even a measure of progress—an obsolete text was gone, and a holy manuscript that would enrich countless spiritual lives was left in its place.

2018
https://www.facebook.com/permalink....GLYQEmGxxpF7paB4a8XrL83ctl&id=379352952144689
https://www.facebook.com/3793529521...tic-palimpsest-of-saint-cat/1987608411319127/

2022 - Mary Jamari’s Center
https://maryjahariscenter.org/blog/sinai-manuscripts-digital-library-research-associate-ucla

Seeger Center - 2023
https://hellenic.princeton.edu/news...atherine’s-monastery-mount-sinai”-synaxis-and

Youtube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r_nbAfbLElQ

Mike Toth - video on Archimedes Palimpsest
https://stcatherines.mused.org/en/stories/97/what-is-a-palimpsest

NPR
Rebecca Deusser
https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/archimedes/manuscripts.html

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Kenneth W. Clark - 1951
https://www.loc.gov/collections/man...ilming-projects-at-mount-sinai-and-jerusalem/

National Geographic
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/magazine/article/explore-ancient-manuscripts

Vaticanus - goes with Warsaw
https://www.worldhistory.org/image/14715/codex-vaticanus/

NLR old aunt new
https://nlr.ru/eng_old/exib/CodexSinaiticus/

What is humorous is the claim that condition of the manuscript does not matter in determining its age, or that Sinaiticus is in phenomenally good condition, perfect conservation, because of the Sinai climate.
You are just a tad upset that Syriacus shows itself to be an ancient manuscript, brittle, fragile.
While Sinaiticus is youthful, alive, flexibl
 
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Sinai Palimpsests Project

Participants​


Participating Scholars
Scholarly Director
  • Claudia Rapp—University of Vienna
Greek
  • Panagiotis Nikolopoulos — former Director, National Library Athens
  • Vasili Katsaros — Aristotle University, Thessaloniki
  • Agamemnon Tselikas — National Bank of Greece Cultural Foundation, Athens
  • Dieter Harlfinger — University of Hamburg
  • Nigel Wilson — Lincoln College, Oxford
  • Giuglielmo Cavallo — Università La Sapienza, Rome
  • Ernst Gamillscheg — Austrian National Library
Syriac and Christian Palestinian Aramaic
  • Sebastian Brock — Oriental Institute, Oxford
  • Christa Müller-Kessler — University of Jena
  • Alain Desreumaux — Le Centre national de la recherche scientifique, Paris
  • Paul Gehin — Le Centre national de la recherche scientifique, Paris
  • Grigory Kessel — Philipps University, Marburg
  • Georgian, Armenian, and Caucasian Albanian
  • Zaza Alexidze — former Director, National Centre of Manuscripts, Tbilisi, Georgia
  • Bernard Outtier — Centre national de la recherche scientifique, Paris
  • Jost Gippert — University of Frankfurt
Arabic
  • Sidney H. Griffith — Catholic University of America, Washington, D.C
  • Hikmat Kashouh — Baptist Theological Seminary, Beirut
Latin
  • Michelle Brown — London
  • David Ganz — Notre Dame University, Indiana
Slavic
  • Heinz Miklas — University of Vienna
Ethiopic
  • Stephen Delamarter — George Fox University, Portland, Oregon
  • Getatchew Haile — St. John’s University, Collegeville, Minnesota
Project Personnel
Project Leadership
  • Father Justin of Sinai — Librarian, St. Catherine’s Monastery of the Sinai
  • Michael Phelps, Director — Executive Director, Early Manuscripts Electronic Library
  • Claudia Rapp, Scholarly Director — Professor of Byzantine Studies at the University of Vienna and Director of the Division of Byzantine Research at the Austrian Academy of Sciences
  • Nikolaos Zarkantzas, Associate Director — CEO, Praxicom, Thessaloniki, Greece
  • Virginia Steel, University Librarian, UCLA
  • Todd Grappone, Associate University Librarian, UCLA
  • Lisa McAulay, Interim Head, Digital Library Program, UCLA
Project Management
  • Michael B. Toth, Program Manager — Technology Integration Consultant, R. B. Toth Associates
  • Robert Daigle, Sinai Palimpsests Web Site Project Manager, UCLA
Imaging Scientists
  • Roger Easton — Chester F. Carlson Center for Imaging Science, Rochester Institute of Technology
  • Keith Knox
  • William Christens-Barry — Chief Scientist, Equipoise Imaging, LCC
  • David Kelbe — Rochester Institute of Technology
Camera Operation and Independent Verification & Validation
  • Kenneth Boydston, Camera Engineer — CEO, MegaVision, Santa Barbara, California
  • Damianos Kasotakis, Camera Operator — Athens, Greece
  • Evangelos Theodorou, Camera Operator—Athens, Greece
Arranger
  • Hemeid Sohby—Assistant to Father Justin, Monastery Librarian
Data Management
  • Giulia Rossetto, Assistant Editor for KatIkon scholarly entries — University of Vienna.
  • Catherine Chambers, Copyeditor for KatIkon scholarly entries.
Project Documentation
  • Meghan Hill, Technical Writer
 
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