review of the stains anomaly (1859 British Library pages), Kirsopp Lake, Skeat and Milne et al

Steven Avery

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Tischendorf Uspensky, Kirsopp Lake et al

Milne and Skeat
There are also a number of brown stains, perhaps due to drops of oil or grease from the lamps and candles of pious readers in the past.
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Morozov

Kevin McGrane
may have a bit in his review of Daniels

David Daniels
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Nothing from Jongkind, Parker et al?
 
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Steven Avery

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A liturgical manuscript used for example in a church, usually shows much more damages on the surface, like strong handling marks or drops of wax and others like these but even with many repairs to the spine, sign of use, the Codex Sinaiticus does not bear an equal deterioration of the textual area, moreover sometimes it is possible to find stains on a page that are not showing visible offset on the following one, like on page 41 verso of the Old Testament compared to the following one on the recto and on page 73 verso compared to 74 recto and all these features could possibly support the theory of a storage of the manuscript split and may be bound in different parts and used in different places possibly to be copied by different monks at the same time.

Is that an indication that pages were stained individually ?

Future research
  • In order to have a better understanding about the manuscript's very complex and rich use (possible storage and its separated parts or unbound) a more accurate mapping of the stains could be extremely useful.
 
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Steven Avery

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Review of Bill Cooper

https://www.kjvbooks.com/blog/read_180097/the-forging-of-codex-sinaiticus.html
4. Sinaiticus does not appear to be a fourth century document from a forensic point of view. In other words, the stains appear to have been deliberately made to produce the appearance of age. The condition of the vellum is not consistent with a fourth century origin. The fading of the text also is not consistent with the ageing process but points rather to deliberate attempts to make the document look old. Bill Cooper gives a very telling quote from the conservation team from the British Library who have examined the document up close. "Much of the visual parchment evidence cannot answer many of the questions asked by those seeking proof about the origins of the Codex and the story of its survival."
 
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Steven Avery

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It has been online now for almost 9 years. So far, only Avery, Pinto, and Daniels have noticed the coffee stains and lemon juice. When are other scholars going to notice this? Why will no one step out of the cone of silence?
 
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