Tischendorfianus 1 - 1844 and 1853 theft, ancient manuscript is super-brittle

Steven Avery

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Steven Avery

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https://forums.carm.org/threads/cod...tantine-simonides-timeline.13239/post-1618877

It also has sample facsimiles of Tischendorfianus 1 to 5 etc, (by memory) and a sample of the CFA script as well.

Here is what we have had about Tischendorfianus:

However, let's look at other manuscripts from St. Catherine's.

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Codex Tischendorfianus I came out of Sinai as part of the same batch that Tischendorf heisted in 1844, the 43 CFA leaves that went to Leipzig.
Tischendorfianus I was described by Scrivener (and later Breen) as so brittle that it basically should not be touched.

A Plain Introduction to the Criticism of the New Testament (1861)
https://books.google.com/books?id=6pOl5kos2O0C&pg=PA124
"It consists of but four leaves (all imperfect) 4to, of very thin vellum, almost too brittle to be touched, so that each leaf is kept separately in glass."

Codex Tischendorfianus I
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Codex_Tischendorfianus_I
Size 30 centimetres (12 in) x 22 centimetres (8.7 in)

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What happened to that wonderful climate? Why did it fail?
One answer: Tischendorfianus is really an ancient manuscript.

The above also discussed here:
https://forums.carm.org/threads/codex-sinaiticus-the-facts.12990/post-1585114

Tischendorfianus is simply one example, using a manuscript from St. Catherine's, of a common situation with truly ancient manuscripts.

Incidentally, its having parts in Leipzig, St. Petersburg and Sinai evidences that it is one of the many Tischendorf thefts.

https://forums.carm.org/threads/the...nides-regarding-sinaiticus.11880/post-1269407

180 years old, in "absolutely perfect" conservation conditions, in phenomenally good condition, with that flexible youthful easy-peasy page turning, is in fact fresh and new in manuscript life. Although it is more than two human lifetimes.

Your obsession is that a leaf can be in a dank, moist (New Finds) dump room and can be torn and tattered, which is true of any parchment. Probably did not need many of the 160 years to get that way.

Use the Archimedes Palimpsest, Tischendorfianus 1, Amiatinus, Vercellensis, Washingtonianus, Vaticanus, Alexandrinus, Bezae, Ephraem and 100 other manuscripts as examples of your older manuscripts.
 
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