Sinaiticus 1859 St. Petersburg pages are "yellow with age"

Steven Avery

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I am not aware that old vellum/parchment takes on color because of age.

Here is Scrivener:

A full Collation of the Codex Sinaiticus with the received text of the New Textament (1864)
https://books.google.com/books?id=v-JUmBD5zIcC&pg=PP38

"The vellum leaves, now almost yellow in colour ..."

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The Primitive Methodist Magazine (1872)
Introduction to the Study of the New Testament
James Austin Bastow
https://books.google.com/books?id=zwkFAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA234

"parchment, supposed to he made of antelope skins, but it is now quite yellow with age."

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Additional info:
https://forums.carm.org/threads/the...nides-regarding-sinaiticus.11880/post-1248652

Detecting Forgery: Forensic Investigation of Documents (2015 and 2021)
Joe Nickell
https://books.google.com/books?id=A0wgEAAAQBAJ&pg=PT254

Joe Nickell, forgery detector, tells how:

Brown staining of a document suspected of having been aged with tea can be tested by a saturated solution of hydrated ferrous sulfate, which will cause tea stains to turn black. Of course, as discussed in chapter 5, other substances have been used to give the appearance of age,
 

Steven Avery

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Linkman - yellow age Sinaiticus

CARM - Various
2024

PBF Various

Forensic Chemistry (1921)
Alfred Lucas
https://archive.org/stream/forensicchemistr00lucarich#page/78/mode/2up
Cover in CARM

The New Testament Manuscripts in the Freer Collection (1918)
Henry A. Sanders
https://archive.org/details/newtestamentmanu09sand/page/4/mode/1up
Page 5
‘The parchment is mostly sheepskin and has yellowed badly with age; yet in spite of this it is still rather transparent, so that the writing on the opposite side of the leaf is often visible. Some goatskin leaves occur, but they are usually hard to distinguish positively. In general it may be said that the flesh side of the goatskin leaves is whiter, and thus the difference in color between the two sides is greater. I have succeeded in seeing in a dozen or more leaves the branching veins characteristic of goatskin. Rough spots showing the hair roots sometimes occur, but only very rarely extend into the written portion of the page. The spots are smaller and nearer together in the goatskin leaves. A few weak spots and holes were mended by pasting on thin pieces of parchment; a good example may be seen on p. 337 of the Facsimile.

1913
https://books.google.com/books?id=17c_AQAAMAAJ&pg=PA42
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https://web.archive.org/web/2017111...ncare/publications/booklets/damaged_books.pdf

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Memoir Simonides Stewart - p 01-23 - - bibliography p. 24-25 - white parchment .. yellow with age .. "venerable and faded colour of antiquity"

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Gottschlich, Jürgen - (2012) Der Bibeljäger - p. 017 - Sinaiticus - ( stains ? ) brown and yellow "not in prayer, but in black and white or brown"- Tischendorf

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https://books.google.com/books?id=hhkgAQAAIAAJ&pg=PA234

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https://books.google.com/books?id=td_OLXo4RvkC&pg=PA41
 
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Steven Avery

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Detecting Forgery: Forensic Investigation of Documents
By Joe Nickell

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