Steven Avery
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https://forums.carm.org/threads/cod...simonides-timeline.13239/page-24#post-1428705
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We (the SART team) call them alleged photographs and see the 1862 book only as replicated Tische-fonts.
David W. Daniels has some discussion in his books. ***
Afawk, if some pictures were taken as part of the process, they are non-extant.
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According to the Russian's...
Photography was undertaken in both St Petersburg and Leipzig along with and/or for the production of the Tischendorf facsimiles.
The Codex Sinaiticus and the Manuscripts of Mt Sinai in the Collections of the National Library of Russia
"...Photography and lithography was undertaken in Saint Petersburg and Leipzig, and the printers were Giesecke & Devrient in Leipzig. Some of the copies were printed on special plant-based paper imitating parchment. The edition was published in a run of 327 copies, of which 227 were distributed among major Russian and West-European institutes and libraries, or presented to eminent persons by the Russian Government's decision. Two copies were forwarded to St. Catherine's - one for the Monastery Library and the other for the library of Cairo House..."
https://nlr.ru/eng_old/exib/CodexSinaiticus/
So there are references to the earliest known photography of the Codex Sinaiticus being undertaken in:
- Cairo 1859
- St Petersburg 1859-1860?
- Leipzig 1859-1860?
We (the SART team) call them alleged photographs and see the 1862 book only as replicated Tische-fonts.
David W. Daniels has some discussion in his books. ***
Afawk, if some pictures were taken as part of the process, they are non-extant.
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