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- Codex Sinaiticus and Constantine Simonides timeline
C’mon TNC. A different person, decades later. Try to be in the ballpark. Problem for you = the Simon sez provenance
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1859 - (March-April) - A rushed draft copy of the Codex Sinaiticus is carried out by Tischendorf and two of his German aides/assistants [= a doctor of medicine, named "L’Orange" from Königsberg, and his personal physician and/or pharmacist, named "Voss", from Leipzig, whom Tischendorf calls "the bookseller in Leipzig, his uncle"] in the "Hôtel des Pyramides" in Cairo.
1859 – (March 15th) - Tischendorf sends a letter from Cairo addressed to the Saxon Minister Von Falkenstein.
1859 – (April 17th) - The Leipziger Zeitung newspaper publishes, in German, the letter sent to Von Falkenstein, sent from Tischendorf, in March 15, 1859.
1859 - (Friday, 6th of May) - The Hull Packet; and East Riding Times (Hull, East Yorkshire, England) 06 May 1859, Fri - Page 3
"Another valuable discovery of Professor Tischendorf is described as an undoubted and complete manuscript of the Epistle of Barnabas and the Shepherd of Hermas, both belonging to the second century of our Christian era, and originally standing in the esteem of the Scriptural Epistles."
Repeated word for word in:
1859 - (Saturday, 7th of May) - The Preston Chronicle and Lancashire Advertiser (Preston, Lancashire, England) Saturday issue, 7th of May, 1859, Page 7
"Another valuable discovery of Professor Tischendorf is described as an undoubted and complete manuscript of the Epistle of Barnabas and the Shepherd of Hermas, both belonging to the second century of our Christian era, and originally standing in the esteem of the Scriptural Epistles."
Repeated word for word again in:
1859 - (Friday, 20th of May) - The Caledonian Mercury (Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Scotland) Friday issue, 20th of May, 1859, Page 2
"Another valuable discovery of Professor Tischendorf is described as an undoubted and complete manuscript of the Epistle of Barnabas and the Shepherd of Hermas, both belonging to the second century of our Christian era, and originally standing in the esteem of the Scriptural Epistles."
1859 - (Monday, 23rd of May) -Simon sez (reference?) he had read about the account of Tischendorf's discovery in the Monday, the 23rd of May, 1859 issue of "The Standard" (which newspaper exactly? TMPK = not currently known!)
[See Page 5, of PDF above]
1859 - (Saturday, 28th of May) -Manchester Weekly Times and Examiner (Manchester, Greater Manchester, England) Saturday issue, 28th of May, 1859, Page 11
"After these comes the whole of the New Testament, followed by the Epistle of St. Barnabas, and the first portion of the Shepherd of Hermas, a writing of the second century, of doubtful Apostolic authority, the Greek text of which was till lately supposed to be lost. Tischendorf has caused a careful and revised copy of 132,000 lines of the manuscript to be made..."
1859 - (July) - Journal of Sacred Literature, publishes an English translation of the letter to Von Falkenstein above.
"The text of the manuscript is distributed among three folio volumes, whereof the two first will contain everything belonging to the Old Testament and the third, the New Testament complete, together with the letter of Barnabas and the fragment of the Shepherd of Hermas."
1859 - (August) - Biographical Memoir, Published by Charles Stewart, August, 1859
Page 60
“M. Tissendorf also lately discovered in a certain monastery in Egypt the Old Testament and part of the New, as well the 1st Book of Hermas, all of which were written in the 2nd Century, or 1750 years ago."
Compare also:
1862 - (Month?) - “Aus dem heiligen Lande”, Leipzig, 1862.
Pages 112-113 (Google Translate - Modified)
"...first part of the Shepherd of Hermas. In the impossibility of sleeping, I immediately set about copying Barnabas, despite the dim lamp and cool temperature [...] The next morning, early on February the 5th, I informed the Oikonomos of my intentions for the manuscript. Given the monastery's reluctance to sell manuscripts, I then limited my wishes to copying the entire text from beginning to end with the greatest accuracy. It comprises around 120,000 short lines, [Page 113] which may have taken more than a year to be written down in the 4th century, even if it was done by the skilled hand of Alexandrian calligraphers..."
See Page 5, of PDF in the previous post.
1859 - (Saturday, 28th of May) -Manchester Weekly Times and Examiner (Manchester, Greater Manchester, England) Saturday issue, 28th of May, 1859, Page 11
"After these comes the whole of the New Testament, followed by the Epistle of St. Barnabas, and the first portion of the Shepherd of Hermas, a writing of the second century, of doubtful Apostolic authority, the Greek text of which was till lately supposed to be lost. Tischendorf has caused a careful and revised copy of 132,000 lines of the manuscript to be made..."
Coincidental?
Wasn't Simonides (from memory) residing in Manchester somewhere around this time?
Do you think it also sounds remarkably similar to what Simon sez below?
1859 - (August) - Biographical Memoir, Published by Charles Stewart, August, 1859
Page 60
“M. Tissendorf also lately discovered in a certain monastery in Egypt the Old Testament and part of the New, as well the 1st Book of Hermas, all of which were written in the 2nd Century, or 1750 years ago."
Also.
As far as the Simonides sez line in January 21, 1863:
"I know that I wrote 1,205 pages in eight months
1862 - (Month?) - “Aus dem heiligen Lande”, Leipzig, 1862.
Pages 112-113 (Google Translate - Modified)
"...first part of the Shepherd of Hermas. In the impossibility of sleeping, I immediately set about copying Barnabas, despite the dim lamp and cool temperature [...] The next morning, early on February the 5th, I informed the Oikonomos of my intentions for the manuscript. Given the monastery's reluctance to sell manuscripts, I then limited my wishes to copying the entire text from beginning to end with the greatest accuracy. It comprises around 120,000 short lines, [Page 113] which may have taken more than a year to be written down in the 4th century, even if it was done by the skilled hand of Alexandrian calligraphers..."
Note: It's quite possible that others apart from Tischendorf, perhaps many, (between 1859 and January 21st 1863) gave estimations (some accurate, some not so accurate) of how many pages or lines etc were either known, or guessed to be written in the extant parts of the Codex Sinaiticus that had been discovered up until then, which Simonides could have read about and/or drawn on for his January 21, 1863 claim: "I know that I wrote 1,205 pages in eight months..."