Memnon 1857 places Simonides at St. Catherine's in Sinai in 1852
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- Codex Sinaiticus and Constantine Simonides timeline
D. W. Daniel's gives this date above: 1820, November 5, Constantine Leonidas Photios was born This is Simonides original family name (in contrast to the later step-family). Simonides himself proclaimed, according to Lycurgos' "Enthullungen", Page 45, in 1856, that he was "thirty three years...
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Steven Avery
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- Codex Sinaiticus and Constantine Simonides timeline
D. W. Daniel's gives this date above: 1820, November 5, Constantine Leonidas Photios was born This is Simonides original family name (in contrast to the later step-family). Simonides himself proclaimed, according to Lycurgos' "Enthullungen", Page 45, in 1856, that he was "thirty three years...
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You can get directly to the palaeographic description footnote referencing 1852 and Sinai using this url:
Memnon
https://books.google.com/books?id=Rh9BAAAAcAAJ&pg=PT13
Alternatively you can put the book in PDF format and it is page 74 of 101.
This was written in 1857 and it gives support to Simonides being in Sinai in 1852.
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- Codex Sinaiticus and Constantine Simonides - St Catherine's manuscripts Catalogue(s) plural
Many of them who have taken the 4th century date (now officially 4th or 5th) were in the dark, not having seen or touched the manuscript, starting with Scrivener and Burgon. "Let me pretend Helen Shenton, whom I MISQUOTE ALL THE TIME, didn't see this. Others, like Helen Shenton, are in...
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This is new to me.
And I would love to know the details.