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The most important known materials that can shed additional light
Letter from Simonides to Hodgkin discussing Sinaiticus evidences - translated in Australia, waiting publication
Letter from Simonides to Kallinikos discussing hieroglyphics - translated in Australia, waiting publication
Uspensky materials
P. Uspenskij, Kniga bytija moego. Dnevniki i avtobiograficeskija zapiski episkopa Porfirija Uspenskago. Izdanie Imperatorskoj Akademii Nauk* pod redakcieju P. A. Syrku Ipostumj, 8 vols
(St Petersburg, 1894-1902). This gave the 1860 quote that it is not an old manuscript.
Uspensky materials with 20 pages on Sinaiticus, referenced by McGrane
Uspensky’s 132pp manuscript
Замечательные рукописи в библиотеках Синайского монастыря и в архиепископских кельях там
[‘Wonderful manuscripts in the libraries of the Sinai monastery and in the Archbishop's cells there’]
in the Uspensky collection at the Imperial Academy of Sciences, № 136.1.
Pages 3-22 are dedicated to Codex Sinaiticus.
Other letters not yet published
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BEGIN REVIEW OF PERSONS WHO WERE INVOLVED IN THE ATHOS MANUSCRIPT AND ITS TRANSPORT TO SINAI
AND SCHOLARSHIP BACKGROUND OF BENEDICT
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Constantine Simonides
Sophronius
Baricourt
Alcibiades
Benedict (Bessarion) (Basilaeus) - (1760-1840) very substantial documentation of his scholarship background.
Benediktos Rossios (Spiachios, born in Symi in 1760 and died in Athos, on 28.5.1840.)
Nikolos Farmakidis, historian, and David W. Daniels have information on his education
At Calauria In 1784 began project to defend the Septuagint.
Athonias School, with Evgenios Voulgaris as a teacher,
Kydonias, Benedict also taught at the Theological School of Halkis (Kydoniae/Ayvalik)
taught on Spetses Island;
Kapodistrias commanded Benedict to teach 12-15 Greek youths on Kalavria Island;
likely taught in the Greek area, Constantinople and Jerusalem.
belonged to a pan-Hellenic circle of scholars, with many acquaintances in diplomatic circles of the West, Russia and the Ottoman Empire.
Kapodistrias said, "no one in Greece until this day has a true education, except for the old Benedictus of Simaeus"
Samuel Nicolaides, from the Greek community in Liverpool tried to pretend that Benedict did not exist, demonstrating the unreliability of negative Athos commentary on Simonides by 1863
“Simonides declares himself able to point out on his codex certain marks and corrections made by his uncle Benedict and Dionysius ..”.
S. [Nicolaidesj formerly Archdeacon and first Secretary of the Metropolis of Salonica, who had five times visited Mount Athos and was well acquainted with all the monasteries, ridiculed Simonides’ story and threw doubts on the very existence of Benedict (The Parthenon, 28 February 1863) ...
Procopius Dendrinos - (d. 1848) Benedict consulted with Procopius - letter of recommendation for Simonides
Benedict…. he consulted with the herald Procopius an[d] the Russian monk Paul, and they decided upon a copy of the Old and New Testaments, written according to the ancient form, in capital letters, and on parchment.
Countess K. Etling, she returned from Constantinople about the 1841 or 1842 ... Constantine Simonides, whom she had taken under her care from Constantinople at the request of the Reverend Archimandrite Procopius Deudrinos,
Reverend Archimandrite Procopius Dendrinos
Biographical Memoir 1859
Such is the account given by Simonides himself, but it is coroborated .. After a short residence at Syme, Simonides went to visit Anthimos, the renowned Patriarch of Constantinople, and brought him recommendations from several of the principal persons of Athos, and especially one from Procopius, a sacred officer of the Church of the Greeks.
Kevin McGrane in Cooper book
(he has the wrong Benedict but the Procopius info is helpful, where is it recorded?)
(this would make Procopius about 95 when he gave a recommendation to Simonides.)
153 The Biographical Memoir, which is based almost entirety on Simonides' tales, states that in 1840 'Benedict was an old man of seventy', i.e. the account subtracts 36 years from Benedict’s real age to make the problem less acute. In fact, it is recorded that both Benedict and Prokopios Dendrinos at the St Panteleimon monastery were trained at the Athoniada Academy on Mount Athos in the mid-1750s, which requires that Benedict was born no later than the 1730s, which is consistent with his being 106 in 1840.
Genius - Lilia 1824-1828 p. 307
Paul (Russian monk) Pavel - Benedict consulted about project
Kevin McGrane: - ordained Russian monk of the same name, who lived only a few months in the monastery before his decease.
"Benedict…. he consulted with the herald Procopius an[d] the Russian monk Paul, and they decided upon a copy of the Old and New Testaments, written according to the ancient form, in capital letters, and on parchment."
"This is the first time I’ve found Simonides listing names of people who agreed with Benedict’s plan: a herald named Procopius and a Russian monk named Paul. Remember that there was no division between Russian and Greek Orthodox, since until 1830 there had been no Greek state, and this was to be an impressive gift for the Russian Tsar who was the benefactor of all Orthodox monasteries." -
David W. Daniels, Who Faked, p. 271
D. 1848 - confirm?
McGrane says 1840
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Alexandr Sturtza (1791-1854)
Countess Etling (Roxandra Edling-Sturdza) (1786-1844)
Georgios Rhodokanakis -mΓεωργίου Ροδοκανάκη ,
Barnabas
Demetrios Rhodokanakis - Genius - Andreas Muller and much more but c. 1867, born 1840
page-18#post-1544729
Demetrius Rhodocanakis seems to be, at the very least, disillusioned with some of Simonides forged manuscript claims and doesn't believe his Codex Sinaiticus claim either.
PS.
The “Codex Sinaiticus“ I do not think was written by himself, as he said.
28 October1867
Kersal Dale Villa
Higher Broughton
Near Manchester
about his plans to marry an English woman, named Miss Morland.49 However, in January 1866 he was already in Cairo50 and in October 1867, both Phillipps and Hodgkin received not a wedding invitation but a note from Dimitrios Rhodokanakis announcing the death of Simonides from leprosy in Alexandria of Egypt:
Porfiry Uspensky
sees manuscript in 1845 and 1850 testifies in 1865 that it is not an old manuscript
Patriach Kallinikos of Alexandria
Uspensky conversation with, in 1860 about removal of the manuscript from Sinai to Russia
Kallinikos
pegs 1844 theft from Tischendorf
called shot - colouring of manuscript that makes 1859 section darker than 1844
notes that Tischendorf 1859 manuscript "loan" is bogus
references that Uspensky had stolen from Dionysius monastery in Athos
laughs about bungling Greek of Tischendorf
And if it is mistranslated and then published, inform me or else publish the true text of my letter in Greek and send me a copy of the magazine, but let it be quickly, for in the new year (God willing) I will go to Jerusalem and from there in Damascus, because the Roman Catholics and followers of Mohammed are creating some bad incidents against us. But I will write to you again from Jerusalem, and I will send you the copy of the inscriptions from Vostran, Syria, and Palestine. I bid you farewell again and again, my son in the Lord, and fight the good fight and write to us. Your spiritual father. COSMETIC MONK. Alexandria, November 6, 1862."
letters of Callinicus from Athos
Thessaloniki
a Thessalonian by birth, his ancestors coming from the city of Naoussa in Macedonia, and related to the general Kayatasos. He was born in 1802 and was named Kyriakos, he took the name Kallinikos upon entering the church and having taken an active part in the Greek revolution, he received the surname of Keraynos, due to his bravery. He then ceased (as is necessary, according to our ecclesiastical law, in cases where a priest takes arms), from the exercise of public rites, and spent a long time in a monastery on Mount Athos, where I met him. Since then he has been engaged in semi-political missions and I am in constant correspondence with him. He has traveled in Europe, Asia, and part of Africa, and throughout the Archipelago, and has published in Moscow and Odessa a series of letters which I sent him on archaeological subjects. What does my friend have in common with
Kallinikos note about Damascus and Jerusalem -
Markos (Charkos) and Dorotheus and Joasaph
https://www.purebibleforum.com/index.php?threads/kallinikos-note-about-damascus-and-jerusalem.3489/
Kallinikos of Sinai - the absent - passed along Cyrillos shill info
Gregory VI (Gregorius) - (1798-1881)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gregory_VI_of_Constantinople
(Greek: Γρηγόριος), baptismal name Georgios Fourtouniadis (Greek: Γεώργιος Φουρτουνιάδης;
Knew Benedict at Athos, written about in Periplus of Hannon
"The old gentleman,’ my late uncle, to whom you facetiously allude, was Benedict, the confidential adviser and spiritual father of John Capod'Istrias; and, after his death, Superior of the Monastery St. Pantelemon (Rosicon), in Mount Athos; and enquiries made there, or of Gregorius, recently Patriarch of Constantinople, would convince you that he was not the unknown man you would have your readers imagine."
The increasing appearance of Protestant tracts and missionaries in the eastern Mediterranean following the end of the Napoleonic Wars was particularly distressing to Patriarch Gregory VI.
Gregory VI of Constantinople (Greek: Γρηγόριος), baptismal name Georgios Fourtouniadis (Greek: Γεώργιος Φουρτουνιάδης; 1 March 1798 – 8 June 1881) was Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople in the periods 1835–1840 and 1867–1871
Odessa publisher contacted by Hodgkin
Genius p. 62
Nikolos
Letter in Australia
Athos Library Entries - 1895 and 1900 - by Spyridon Lambrou
Supports Kallinikos and Simonides working together at Athos on manuscripts.
Dionysius the calligraphist of Russico, - McGrane says died 1848
Dionysios Agiartemitis in Panteleimonos.
Διονύσιος Αγιαρτεμίτης
“Simonides declares himself able to point out on his codex certain marks and corrections made by his uncle Benedict and Dionysius ..”.
likely made notes with his name on the Sinaiticus manuscript
"copied the treatise of Pausclenus about Dionysius of Agrapha at the request of Pappa Macarius for M. Didron. It is possible that he is mentioned in that work" - Hodgkin in Elliott p. 75 this may be the same
Genius p. 42 - Lilia
Theophylact is on the Sinaiticus manuscript
Deacon Hilarion of Russico, (mcgrane says different Hilarion) likely made notes with his name on manuscript
("friends Nicander and Niphon, who lent thee the books of Esdras...")
brought Simonides the 25,000 piastres from Constantius
Hilarion of Russico D. 1886 - in 2012 Danilets
To Lora Gerd - One reason the Antonin Kapustin report would be interesting would be to see if there is any mention of the deacon Hilarion.
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Kevin
you have nevertheless overlooked Hilarion of Sinai who was commissioned by the British and Foreign Bible Society in 1820 to translate the Bible into modern Greek. They rejected his translation because he refused to depart from the LXX in favour of the Massoretic text.
CARM
Germanus (and his subordinate) and Hilarion (1810-1886) were also in that narrative, we have to handle them separately, as they were given some uneven discussion by McGrane in the Athos section. They were both likely alive.
Special
Εἰδικὴ ἔκδοσι γιὰ τὸν ὅσιο Ἱλαρίωνα ἔχει κάνει ὁ Γέροντας τῆς Καλύβης «ἁγ. Ἰω. ὁ Θεολόγος» Παΐσιος Μοναχὸς μὲ τίτλο «Ο ΠΥΡΓΟΣ ΤΗΣ ΑΡΕΤΗΣ», Ἅγιον Ὄρος 2006.
HOLINESS HILARION THE GEORGIAN Holy Hilarion (1776-1864) was born in Imereti, Western Georgia. He was a married priest, advisor to the king of Georgia and spiritual director of the Moscow palace. During the Turkish occupation, he came to Mount Athos, where he practiced asceticism in various monasteries and skete, as well as in the rocky caves of Athos. For a short time, he remained in Thessaloniki, ministering to Turkish prisoners at the risk of his life. The culmination of his ascetic struggles was his voluntary imprisonment for three years in the Tower of the New Skete. He died in 1864 and was canonized by the Patriarchate of Georgia in 2002. His memory is celebrated on February 14. A special edition for Saint Hilarion has been published by the Elder of Kalyves “St. John the Theologian” Paisios the Monk, entitled “THE TOWER OF VIRTUE”, Mount Athos 2006.
Russian Investigation
Then a trip to the archimandrite cell to see the great elder Hilarion132
132 Greek hierodeacon (1810 – 1886). Deputy to hegumen Gerasim. Entered St Panteleimon in 1837 and was thoroughly familiar with Simonides’ activities 1839-41
Kevin McGrane confusion -
Hilarion
143 This statement is correct. Antonin of course perceived that the "deacon Hilarion' whom Simonides included in his account was not the hierodeacon (i.e. a monk ordained as a deacon) at St Panteleimon but a namesake deacon (who was not a monk) in Constantinople running an errand for the Patriarch, whom Simonides had invented for the purpose. His alter ego Kallinikos mentions the deacon Hilarion
in Smyrna. All those who corresponded about this and gave Antonin his commission naturally perceived the same, and so did not consider that Antonin should be interviewing a Hilarion at St Panteleimon since he did not figure in Simonides' account there. Simonides was careful not to identify hierodeacon Hilarion at St Panteleimon, just as he was careful never to mention the hegumen Gerasim (pretending that Benedict was hegumen) for they were eyewitness of what Simonides got up to in 1840, and were still alive in the 1860s. Indeed they both went on to give testimony against him to the Holy Synod. Since the Hilarion mentioned by Simonides was in Constantinople, and a deacon not a
hierodeacon, there were no persons at St Panteleimon whom Simonides mentions in his account who were still alive
more
Hilarion, hierodeacon, a person very close to the hegumen and to the late Benedict.
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© Kevin McGrane 2024
APPENDIX 1
Gerasim. Greek hieromonk (of Bulgarian
ancestry). Born Georgy Vasilyevich (surname
unknown) in 1772 in the village of Evdomista,
diocese of Drama. Ordained a hierodeacon and
hieromonk in the local ancient monastery of
St Bogoroditsa Ikosifinitsa (Kormista, Macedonia).
Entered Mount Athos in 1804 in the skete of St Anna.
Transferred to Koutloumousiou monastery for one
year, and then moved to St Panteleimon Monastery.
Nominated by hegumen Savvas (d. 1821) as his
successor, he became acting hegumen, but during
the Greek uprising against the Turks he left the Holy
Mountain and lived in Morea for 9 years; after the
end of political strife he returned to St Panteleimon
Monastery, where in 1830 he was formally elected hegumen, which was confirmed
by the patriarch in 1833. He died on May 10, 1875.
Close to Benedict and Prokopios Dendrinos and intimately aware of the activities of
Simonides 1839-41. Refused Simonides access to the monastery library 1851-2.
Interviewed by Antonin concerning the ‘Simonides Affair’.
Hilarion. Greek hierodeacon. Born Ioannis Georgiou
(surname unknown) in 1810, in Platamónas, diocese of
Salonica. Lodged with Athanasius, Patriarch of
Jerusalem, and then with Meletius, Metropolitan of
Thessalonica. Entered the St Panteleimon Monastery in
1837. Deputy to hegumen Gerasim. Very close to the
Greek hierodeacon Benedict. Knew Simonides’
activities 1839-41. Died June 30, 1886.
Interviewed by Antonin concerning the ‘Simonides
Affair’.
Signature of Ἱλαριων ἱεροδιακονος
NIcander
Nikandros Philadelphos Georgiadis (1793-1873) (student in Kydonias of Theof. Kairis),
Farmakidis
Nicander (Michael Kalafatas)
His uncle Michael Kalafatas Ioannidis, in 1858, after
. Along with Benedictus and Procopius, an important role for the Revolution in Symi was played by the Secretary of the School Hatziaagapitos Hatziioannou and his associates Simonas Hatzikostas and the Hieromonk Nikandros (Michael Ioannidis)
More from Farmakidis
https://www.purebibleforum.com/inde...more-info-nicolos-farmakidis.4325/#post-18385
p. 398
551. Michael Kalafatas-Ioannidis, a monk named Nikandros, brother of Konstantinos Simonides' mother. Nikandros will attend the Seminary of Poros.
398
Niphon
“Nicander and Niphon, who lent thee the Books of Esdras…”
Hadji John Prodromos - coffee shop in Galata, outskirts of Constantinople
Pappa Prodromos had church in Trebizond on the northern coast (unclear if he saw manuscript)
Anthimus IV - (1785-1874) Patriarch (Bishop) of Constantinople - letter of recommendation
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthimus_IV_of_Constantinople
Anthimus IV of Constantinople, Ecumenical Patriarch in 1840–1841 and 1848–1852
The contra tried to pretend this was a different Anthimus
https://forums.carm.org/threads/codex-sinaiticus-constantine-simonides-the-russian-orthodox-review-vol-10-1863-Православное-Обозрение-1863-Х-p-362ff.15124/page-6#post-1319327
Anthimus III
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthimus_III_of_Constantinople
Anthimus V - emphasized by Nikolos Farmikidis
en.m.wikipedia.org
p. 151-153
Constantius I - (1770-1859) manuscript examination and corrections at Constantinople
1830-1834 ecumenical patriarch of constantinople
not in Genius
Did Simonides write of him as Constantius I in a back-dated writing?
Constantius II was (1789-1859) 1834-1835 ecumenical patriarch of constantinople
Is wiki correct that both died in 1859?
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Germanus - transports manuscript from Antigonus to Sinai
Germanus Subordinate in Athos
May become official at Sinai - more to add
"For I myself saw him with my own eyes, in February, 1840, writing it in Athos; and, owing to the death of the head of the monastery, he left the work unfinished, and went to Constantinople, taking the Codex with him, which also he delivered to the illustrious patriarch Constantius, and he sent it to the monastery in Sinai by a monk of that house, named Germanus, whose subordinate still lives in Athos to attest the writer"
Also Tischendorf saw Germanus in his 1844 visit to Constantinople
1844 - June 15th - Constantine Tischendorf's prepares for his first visit (in September): "He must cut his trip short : he wants to go to the Patriarch [= Germanus the 4th (Patriarch between 14 June 1842–18 April 1845)] in Constantinople in order to obtain the rest of the folia (beside the 43 he has) which remained at Sinai ; thus he has suspended making a public announcement of his find. That his trip to Sinai was of interest to him in thousands of other ways his brother will certainly understand." (Letter to his brother Julius, Cairo, on Pages 83-84 of "The Discovery of the Codex Sinaiticus as reported in the personal letters of Konstantin Tischendorf." By Jeffrey Michael Featherstone 19/01/2020).
Can Germanus have moved from the monk in 1841 who delivered the manuscript from Antigonus to Sinai to become the Patriarch who Tischendorf visited in 1844 (Patriarch June 1842-April 1845) ? With subordinate at Athos.
Is that possible? Your thoughts. Is there a Germanus bio?
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Elliott p. 76-77 - letter from Kallinikos
"delivered to the illustrious patriarch Constantius, and he sent it to the monastery in Sinai by a monk of that house, named Germanus, whose subordinate still lives in Athos to attest the writer."
“... Archimandrite German, secretary of Mt Sinai Monastery at the time of the discovery and transfer of the above manuscript.”
https://expositions.nlr.ru/eng/ex_manus/CodexSinaiticus/zah/3.php#5
"the blessed patriarch Constantius, who sent it to Mount Sinai by the Monk Germanus of Sinai, whom thou knowest,"
This is likely Archimandrite Germanus Aphthonides, who is described as late by Anges Smith Lewis, and who published on Athanasius Comnenus Ypsilanti.
In the extensive writings of Athanasius Ypsilanti ( +1775) recently published by the Archimandrite Germanus Aphthonides of Sinai, bearing the title “Events after the Capture” (of Constantinople), you will find much relating to the Patriarchal See of Antioch.
(A History of the Holy Eastern Church, 1873 John Mason Neale)
https://archive.org/details/ahistoryholyeas03nealgoog
Daniels, Faked p. 70
https://books.google.com/books?id=Ap83EAAAQBAJ&pg=RA1-PA70
continues!
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Germanus_IV_of_Constantinople
not in Genius
Who Faked p. 187 Kindle
Also
https://books.google.com/books?id=Ap83EAAAQBAJ&pg=RA1-PA96
https://nlr.ru/eng_old/exib/CodexSinaiticus/zah/3.html
At the same time, Ignatyev instructed his secretary, A. Kumani, to discuss the subject with the previous Archbishop Cyril residing in Constantinople53. Here is an extract from Kumani's account:
<…> Evidence on the Sinai Bible case provided by Professor Tischendorf, <…> is not fully consistent with explanations offered by Cyril Archbishop of Sinai and Archimandrite German, secretary of Mt Sinai Monastery at the time of the discovery and transfer of the above manuscript. Rather amazingly, both divines maintain that Mt Sinai community never wished, nor even intended to present the Bible to His Majesty the Emperor. <…> Right Rev. Cyril admits this desire on his own part, while insisting that he could not fulfill it just because the brethren still show no inclination whatever to pass the Bible to Russia… (See the memorandum) https://nlr.ru/eng_old/exib/CodexSinaiticus/zah/3_2.html
53 — Count Ignatiev informs thereof Chancellor A.M. Gorchakov in his confidential letter from Bujuk-dere, 14/26 May 1868, no. 135 (AVPRI, f. 161 II-11, op. 50, d. 5, fols. 82r-84r).(back to the text)
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Callistratus
Simonides “archbishop of Libya” “spiritual father”
Kallistratos (1867–1884) Archbishop of Mount Sinai and Raithu
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archbishop_of_Mount_Sinai_and_Raithu
One, likely later, is Cyril Rokidis
"Cyril Rokidis (later named Kallistratos) worked hard during 1867-1868 for an acceptable solution on the Sinai Question and in order to restore the normal rotations between the Patriarch of Jerusalem and the Monastery.
the hieromonk Callistratus, a wise man, and companion of the same house, undertook the comparison of it, and did compare it with other codices of the same house, by command of Constantius, the patriarch.
"thy spiritual father, Callistratus, when he went to Alexandria"
CSP
their election of a new Archbishop, Kallistratos. The latter was duly consecrated by the Patriarch of Jerusalem, but not recognised by either the other Patriarchs and Orthodox Churches or the political authorities, since they continued to consider Kyrillos, who resided in Constantinople after his disavowal by the Brotherhood, as the legitimate and rightful Archbishop. Finally, in 1869, Kallistratos achieved recognition as Archbishop by all canonical and state authorities.
" Cyril Rokidis (later named Kallistratos) worked hard during 1867-1868 Tor an acceptable solution on the Sinai Question "
p. 376
David Daniels
Callistratus got to become Archbishop of Sinai in exchange for saying nothing about the Codex. And his monks received 9,000 gold rubles for the “gift”;
not in Genius - check spelling
Michael Fotiadis went to Constantinople with Simonides in 1841
. Michael Fotiadis Markonis (b. 1775),
Andreas Koromelas (Caromela)- Athens book-seller and printer before time at Athos.
Gabriel - St. Catherine's - the keeper of the treasures
https://books.google.com/books?id=kR82AAAAMAAJ&pg=PA223
The one before Gabriel is unnamed, who gave Tischendorf access to the manuscript.
"I certified them that this MS. of the Scriptures is still preserved in Sinai (as thou also knowest), because I saw it there with my own eyes when I was in the Monastery of St. Catherine in 1845 in the month of July, and handled it with my own hands, and found it very defective, and somewhat changed; and when I asked the reason, I understood from Gabriel, the keeper of the treasures, that his predecessor had given the manuscript to a German, who visited the monastery in 1844 in the month of May, and who having had the MS. in his hands several days, secretly removed a part of it, and went away during the time that the librarian lay ill, afflicted with a typhoid fever."
not in Genius
Gabriel - Kallinikos = Keeper of the Treasures (i.e. the Skeuophylax or Sacristan) in 1858 σκευοφύλαξ mentioned by Tisch?
David Daniels uses Skeuophilax- it was Vitalios or Vitaly who said not Tischendorf in 1859
NOTE: (See also Grenzboten)
Elliott p. 71
“Neither Dionysius the scribe nor Germanus the monk nor Hilarion the deacon nor John Podromos [sic] the coffee-house keeper were called upon to corroborate the story."
Charles Stewart (Steuart, Charles B. Stewart)- writes biographical Memoir - testifies to Simonides manuscript involvement by 1860
"Simonides first committed to writing in England (in a letter to Mr. Charles Stewart, dated 4th (16th) January, 1860) his version of the history of the Codex Sinaiticus." Stewart had moved to Canada but could have been contacted about his time when they discussed the manuscript.
Henry Stewart - based on Periplus, he would also be able to give testimony about Simonides and manuscripts, and possibly Sinaiticus in the critical 1859-1860 period.
John Eliot Hodgkin - would learn about the Sinaiticus issues before they were made public.
28 in Genius
PBF quotes Elliott
Mark and Dorotheus and Joasaph greet you, they are going tomorrow to Jerusalem and from there to Damascus. I have received all your books, and have given them to your friends, so feel free to ask this question. When will you come to Egypt? You know that your presence is urgently required. Come quickly, please again, for we are on the eve of great affairs, as you well know. In a great hurry."
The reinstatement of the Code after its publication was guaranteed by the Russian ambassador in Constantinople,
Also involved early
John Newton who showed CFA book and maybe Benjamin Wills Newton, cousin of Tregelles)
Drakakes - medical student
Also editor of the Literary Churchman "saw" acrostics and Kallinikos
Both letters appeared in The Guardian. A point from an earlier letter by Wright is commented on by L. Drakachis, who announces himself as a friend of Simonides. He was a medical student introduced to Simonides at J.E. Hodgkin’s
request by his uncle Dr. Thomas Hodgkin to act as an interpreter.
mcgrane says his translator
Tischendorf -
already concerned about Simonides in 1859 en route to monastery
writes of Simonides claiming to use "mountains of Athos manuscripts"
The Moscow Bible and Montfaucon on Greek Palaeography would be easily available as well
Hort and others know of claim by Dec, 1861
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2 Pavlos P. Peppas Aeginitis (Student of the Central School and Teacher at the "Orphanage"). Archive of the Academy of Athens. It bears number 403 and the seal of the Academy. Treasurer's correspondence from Treasurer no.
Konstantinos Oikonomos
We must note that Constantios I died on January 6, 1859, Oikonomos in 1857 and Sturtzas in 1854.
https://www.biblicaltraining.org/library/constantine-oikonomos
1780-1857. Greek scholar and theologian. A keen patriot, he was active in politics as well as ecclesiastical affairs, and strongly opposed Western influences in Greek life which had assumed increasing importance in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. He wrote works on philology and the history of literature, but his most notable achievement was a massive four-volume study of the Septuagint in over 3,700 pages, published in Athens, 1844-49, entitled Peri tomn ho hermemneutomn. He believed the Septuagint text was canonical and inspired rather than the Massoretic text, an idea rarely held. Even so, it contained much useful information, e.g., concerning the difference in chronology between the Greek and Hebrew texts.
Barnabas 1843, published by
Rodokanaki
Rhodokanakis Rodokanakis
Rhodocanakis Georgios -
Do not have date of birth-death
Rhodocanakis, Georgios - Rodokanakis, Georg D. - (1838) Regierungs-Blatt des Königreichs Griechenland: (amtliche Übersetzung aus dem ... - Hellas - Rhodocanakis Georgios
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Cyrillos the Corrupt - was Tischendorf's guy at the monastery, exposed as ultra-corrupt
Kallinikos the Absent -echos Cyrillos to Silvester Davies, for William Aldis Wright and the Investigative Clowns
Vitaly the sacristan at St. Catherine's
https://www.purebibleforum.com/inde...spensky-actions-and-writings.2837/#post-12435
Kevin McGrane makes a point about not mentioning
Gerasim (1772-1875) from Russico Hegumen Gerasim 'the Svjatogorets'
In addition to the lies from Nicolaides, there were denials from the Dionysius monastery.
And a puzzling letter perhaps from Russico printed in Russian
Lycurgus (Lycorgus, Lycourgas, Lykurgos) knows Simonides in Athens and Germany. It would be interesting to find any comments he made on Sinaiticus, Canfora indicated some notes relating to Simonides on the CFA, but that has not panned out.
Lycurgas has frequent correspondence with:
Oikonomos ex Oikonomon, whom he calls a teacher. To him, he admonishes...
Constantine Oikonomos of the Oikonomoi (Greek: Κωνσταντίνος Οικονόμος ο εξ Οικονόμων), also Constantine Economos,
https://orthodoxwiki.org/Constantine_Oikonomos
And he does come up in Farmakidis
Amphilochius
affirms the Simonides connection to Constantius, in a quote from Constantius dating back to c. 1857-58,
Amphilochius gives a letter negative to Simonides in 1863 in Elliott but does not cover manuscript, etc. It involves Gerasim and Dionysius and whether there was a stash of mss.
"the Odessa school Simonides became acquainted with Amphilochius during 1841-2, who confirms that he had “a slight knowledge of the rudiments of our ancient Greek language ..."
Benedict and more is confirmed by Amphilochius of Pelusium
p. 118-120 Elliott
p. 120 - Meletius of Syme
Moreover when Mr. C. Simonides came to Alexandria in 1852, about the month of August, he resided on board the ship George and Minna of Maliaracades, Captain Nicolas, and sailed with that ship for England. He sometimes, however, slept at the wine—shop of the Cyprist, George Televantos; but I do not believe that he went to Mount Sinai; and he never resided in the Monastery of St. Saba.
Alexandria, July 26th, 1863.
Meletius of Syme,
Note material in Orthodox Review 1863 with letter in Russian.
Recommendations - Letters of Credence
Procopius - Simonides went to visit Anthimos, the renowned Patriarch of Constantinople, and brought him recommendations from several of the principal persons of Athos, and especially one from Procopius, a sacred officer of the Church of the Greeks. - 1859 Memoir
Symais 1849 - Anthimus IV (above)
Symais 1849 - Xenophon Pappadatos
Symais 1849 - Colonel Tzami Karatassos
Saint Beuve -Paris
cousin of Simonides on his mother's side, the hieromonk Sabbas,
the holy monk Sabbas, who afterwards became a dignitary of the mountain
(helped with the Benedict stash)
"Athens, 1854, edited by Skatharos."
Mordtmann, who was travelled around with Simonides in Constantinople,
Leaving aside the Hermas connection for now.
David W. Daniels
https://books.google.com/books?id=Ap83EAAAQBAJ&pg=RA1-PA54
Letter from Simonides to Hodgkin discussing Sinaiticus evidences - translated in Australia, waiting publication
Letter from Simonides to Kallinikos discussing hieroglyphics - translated in Australia, waiting publication
Uspensky materials
P. Uspenskij, Kniga bytija moego. Dnevniki i avtobiograficeskija zapiski episkopa Porfirija Uspenskago. Izdanie Imperatorskoj Akademii Nauk* pod redakcieju P. A. Syrku Ipostumj, 8 vols
(St Petersburg, 1894-1902). This gave the 1860 quote that it is not an old manuscript.
Uspensky materials with 20 pages on Sinaiticus, referenced by McGrane
Uspensky’s 132pp manuscript
Замечательные рукописи в библиотеках Синайского монастыря и в архиепископских кельях там
[‘Wonderful manuscripts in the libraries of the Sinai monastery and in the Archbishop's cells there’]
in the Uspensky collection at the Imperial Academy of Sciences, № 136.1.
Pages 3-22 are dedicated to Codex Sinaiticus.
Other letters not yet published
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BEGIN REVIEW OF PERSONS WHO WERE INVOLVED IN THE ATHOS MANUSCRIPT AND ITS TRANSPORT TO SINAI
AND SCHOLARSHIP BACKGROUND OF BENEDICT
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Constantine Simonides
Sophronius
Baricourt
Alcibiades
Benedict (Bessarion) (Basilaeus) - (1760-1840) very substantial documentation of his scholarship background.
Benediktos Rossios (Spiachios, born in Symi in 1760 and died in Athos, on 28.5.1840.)
Nikolos Farmakidis, historian, and David W. Daniels have information on his education
At Calauria In 1784 began project to defend the Septuagint.
Athonias School, with Evgenios Voulgaris as a teacher,
Kydonias, Benedict also taught at the Theological School of Halkis (Kydoniae/Ayvalik)
taught on Spetses Island;
Kapodistrias commanded Benedict to teach 12-15 Greek youths on Kalavria Island;
likely taught in the Greek area, Constantinople and Jerusalem.
belonged to a pan-Hellenic circle of scholars, with many acquaintances in diplomatic circles of the West, Russia and the Ottoman Empire.
Kapodistrias said, "no one in Greece until this day has a true education, except for the old Benedictus of Simaeus"
Samuel Nicolaides, from the Greek community in Liverpool tried to pretend that Benedict did not exist, demonstrating the unreliability of negative Athos commentary on Simonides by 1863
“Simonides declares himself able to point out on his codex certain marks and corrections made by his uncle Benedict and Dionysius ..”.
S. [Nicolaidesj formerly Archdeacon and first Secretary of the Metropolis of Salonica, who had five times visited Mount Athos and was well acquainted with all the monasteries, ridiculed Simonides’ story and threw doubts on the very existence of Benedict (The Parthenon, 28 February 1863) ...
Procopius Dendrinos - (d. 1848) Benedict consulted with Procopius - letter of recommendation for Simonides
Benedict…. he consulted with the herald Procopius an[d] the Russian monk Paul, and they decided upon a copy of the Old and New Testaments, written according to the ancient form, in capital letters, and on parchment.
Countess K. Etling, she returned from Constantinople about the 1841 or 1842 ... Constantine Simonides, whom she had taken under her care from Constantinople at the request of the Reverend Archimandrite Procopius Deudrinos,
Reverend Archimandrite Procopius Dendrinos
Biographical Memoir 1859
Such is the account given by Simonides himself, but it is coroborated .. After a short residence at Syme, Simonides went to visit Anthimos, the renowned Patriarch of Constantinople, and brought him recommendations from several of the principal persons of Athos, and especially one from Procopius, a sacred officer of the Church of the Greeks.
Kevin McGrane in Cooper book
(he has the wrong Benedict but the Procopius info is helpful, where is it recorded?)
(this would make Procopius about 95 when he gave a recommendation to Simonides.)
153 The Biographical Memoir, which is based almost entirety on Simonides' tales, states that in 1840 'Benedict was an old man of seventy', i.e. the account subtracts 36 years from Benedict’s real age to make the problem less acute. In fact, it is recorded that both Benedict and Prokopios Dendrinos at the St Panteleimon monastery were trained at the Athoniada Academy on Mount Athos in the mid-1750s, which requires that Benedict was born no later than the 1730s, which is consistent with his being 106 in 1840.
Genius - Lilia 1824-1828 p. 307
Paul (Russian monk) Pavel - Benedict consulted about project
Kevin McGrane: - ordained Russian monk of the same name, who lived only a few months in the monastery before his decease.
"Benedict…. he consulted with the herald Procopius an[d] the Russian monk Paul, and they decided upon a copy of the Old and New Testaments, written according to the ancient form, in capital letters, and on parchment."
"This is the first time I’ve found Simonides listing names of people who agreed with Benedict’s plan: a herald named Procopius and a Russian monk named Paul. Remember that there was no division between Russian and Greek Orthodox, since until 1830 there had been no Greek state, and this was to be an impressive gift for the Russian Tsar who was the benefactor of all Orthodox monasteries." -
David W. Daniels, Who Faked, p. 271
D. 1848 - confirm?
McGrane says 1840
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Alexandr Sturtza (1791-1854)
Countess Etling (Roxandra Edling-Sturdza) (1786-1844)
Georgios Rhodokanakis -mΓεωργίου Ροδοκανάκη ,
Barnabas
Demetrios Rhodokanakis - Genius - Andreas Muller and much more but c. 1867, born 1840
Codex Sinaiticus and Constantine Simonides - the Benedict identity fraud/theft
Constantine Simonides (Greek Κωνσταντίνος Σιμωνίδης) committed what we describe today as identity theft and/or fraud in regard to the "Hiero-Deacon Benedict" (Greek Βενέδικτος ιεροδιάκονος) at the Rossico (Greek Ρωσικό) or Panteliemon monastery (Greek: Μονή Αγίου Παντελεήμονος) on what the Greek...
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Demetrius Rhodocanakis seems to be, at the very least, disillusioned with some of Simonides forged manuscript claims and doesn't believe his Codex Sinaiticus claim either.
PS.
The “Codex Sinaiticus“ I do not think was written by himself, as he said.
28 October1867
Kersal Dale Villa
Higher Broughton
Near Manchester
Georgios Rhodocanakis - Megaklis, Barnabas - Demetrios Rhodocanakis - The „Codex Sinaiticus" I do not think was written by himself, as he said.
WIP There are a few other relevant pages. Genius book - Anna Mykoniati is ambiguous on the 1843 David W. Daniels - Barnabas Preface also Chris Pinto Kevin McGrane - interested in Jonas King
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about his plans to marry an English woman, named Miss Morland.49 However, in January 1866 he was already in Cairo50 and in October 1867, both Phillipps and Hodgkin received not a wedding invitation but a note from Dimitrios Rhodokanakis announcing the death of Simonides from leprosy in Alexandria of Egypt:
Porfiry Uspensky
sees manuscript in 1845 and 1850 testifies in 1865 that it is not an old manuscript
Patriach Kallinikos of Alexandria
Uspensky conversation with, in 1860 about removal of the manuscript from Sinai to Russia
Kallinikos
pegs 1844 theft from Tischendorf
called shot - colouring of manuscript that makes 1859 section darker than 1844
notes that Tischendorf 1859 manuscript "loan" is bogus
references that Uspensky had stolen from Dionysius monastery in Athos
laughs about bungling Greek of Tischendorf
And if it is mistranslated and then published, inform me or else publish the true text of my letter in Greek and send me a copy of the magazine, but let it be quickly, for in the new year (God willing) I will go to Jerusalem and from there in Damascus, because the Roman Catholics and followers of Mohammed are creating some bad incidents against us. But I will write to you again from Jerusalem, and I will send you the copy of the inscriptions from Vostran, Syria, and Palestine. I bid you farewell again and again, my son in the Lord, and fight the good fight and write to us. Your spiritual father. COSMETIC MONK. Alexandria, November 6, 1862."
letters of Callinicus from Athos
Thessaloniki
a Thessalonian by birth, his ancestors coming from the city of Naoussa in Macedonia, and related to the general Kayatasos. He was born in 1802 and was named Kyriakos, he took the name Kallinikos upon entering the church and having taken an active part in the Greek revolution, he received the surname of Keraynos, due to his bravery. He then ceased (as is necessary, according to our ecclesiastical law, in cases where a priest takes arms), from the exercise of public rites, and spent a long time in a monastery on Mount Athos, where I met him. Since then he has been engaged in semi-political missions and I am in constant correspondence with him. He has traveled in Europe, Asia, and part of Africa, and throughout the Archipelago, and has published in Moscow and Odessa a series of letters which I sent him on archaeological subjects. What does my friend have in common with
Kallinikos note about Damascus and Jerusalem -
Markos (Charkos) and Dorotheus and Joasaph
https://www.purebibleforum.com/index.php?threads/kallinikos-note-about-damascus-and-jerusalem.3489/
Kallinikos of Sinai - the absent - passed along Cyrillos shill info
Gregory VI (Gregorius) - (1798-1881)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gregory_VI_of_Constantinople
(Greek: Γρηγόριος), baptismal name Georgios Fourtouniadis (Greek: Γεώργιος Φουρτουνιάδης;
Knew Benedict at Athos, written about in Periplus of Hannon
"The old gentleman,’ my late uncle, to whom you facetiously allude, was Benedict, the confidential adviser and spiritual father of John Capod'Istrias; and, after his death, Superior of the Monastery St. Pantelemon (Rosicon), in Mount Athos; and enquiries made there, or of Gregorius, recently Patriarch of Constantinople, would convince you that he was not the unknown man you would have your readers imagine."
The increasing appearance of Protestant tracts and missionaries in the eastern Mediterranean following the end of the Napoleonic Wars was particularly distressing to Patriarch Gregory VI.
| Gregory VI of Constantinople | |
|---|---|
| Personal details | |
| Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople | |
| |
| Church | Church of Constantinople |
| Diocese | Constantinople |
| See | Ecumenical Patriarchate |
| Installed | 27 September 1835 10 February 1867 |
| Term ended | 20 February 1840 10 June 1871 |
| Predecessor | Constantius II of Constantinople Sophronius III of Constantinople |
| Successor | Anthimus IV of Constantinople Anthimus VI of Constantinople |
| Born | Georgios Fourtouniadis (Γεώργιος Φουρτουνιάδης) 1 March 1798 Fanaraki (Rumelifeneri) |
| Died | 8 June 1881 (aged 83) Arnavutköy, Ottoman Empire |
| Buried | Holy Church of Asomati |
| Denomination | Eastern Orthodox Church |
| Parents | Angelos and Soultana Fourtouniadis |
Odessa publisher contacted by Hodgkin
Genius p. 62
Nikolos
Letter in Australia
Athos Library Entries - 1895 and 1900 - by Spyridon Lambrou
Supports Kallinikos and Simonides working together at Athos on manuscripts.
Dionysius the calligraphist of Russico, - McGrane says died 1848
Dionysios Agiartemitis in Panteleimonos.
Διονύσιος Αγιαρτεμίτης
“Simonides declares himself able to point out on his codex certain marks and corrections made by his uncle Benedict and Dionysius ..”.
likely made notes with his name on the Sinaiticus manuscript
"copied the treatise of Pausclenus about Dionysius of Agrapha at the request of Pappa Macarius for M. Didron. It is possible that he is mentioned in that work" - Hodgkin in Elliott p. 75 this may be the same
Genius p. 42 - Lilia
Theophylact is on the Sinaiticus manuscript
Deacon Hilarion of Russico, (mcgrane says different Hilarion) likely made notes with his name on manuscript
("friends Nicander and Niphon, who lent thee the books of Esdras...")
brought Simonides the 25,000 piastres from Constantius
Hilarion of Russico D. 1886 - in 2012 Danilets
To Lora Gerd - One reason the Antonin Kapustin report would be interesting would be to see if there is any mention of the deacon Hilarion.
.
Kevin
you have nevertheless overlooked Hilarion of Sinai who was commissioned by the British and Foreign Bible Society in 1820 to translate the Bible into modern Greek. They rejected his translation because he refused to depart from the LXX in favour of the Massoretic text.
CARM
Germanus (and his subordinate) and Hilarion (1810-1886) were also in that narrative, we have to handle them separately, as they were given some uneven discussion by McGrane in the Athos section. They were both likely alive.
Special
Εἰδικὴ ἔκδοσι γιὰ τὸν ὅσιο Ἱλαρίωνα ἔχει κάνει ὁ Γέροντας τῆς Καλύβης «ἁγ. Ἰω. ὁ Θεολόγος» Παΐσιος Μοναχὸς μὲ τίτλο «Ο ΠΥΡΓΟΣ ΤΗΣ ΑΡΕΤΗΣ», Ἅγιον Ὄρος 2006.
HOLINESS HILARION THE GEORGIAN Holy Hilarion (1776-1864) was born in Imereti, Western Georgia. He was a married priest, advisor to the king of Georgia and spiritual director of the Moscow palace. During the Turkish occupation, he came to Mount Athos, where he practiced asceticism in various monasteries and skete, as well as in the rocky caves of Athos. For a short time, he remained in Thessaloniki, ministering to Turkish prisoners at the risk of his life. The culmination of his ascetic struggles was his voluntary imprisonment for three years in the Tower of the New Skete. He died in 1864 and was canonized by the Patriarchate of Georgia in 2002. His memory is celebrated on February 14. A special edition for Saint Hilarion has been published by the Elder of Kalyves “St. John the Theologian” Paisios the Monk, entitled “THE TOWER OF VIRTUE”, Mount Athos 2006.
Russian Investigation
Then a trip to the archimandrite cell to see the great elder Hilarion132
132 Greek hierodeacon (1810 – 1886). Deputy to hegumen Gerasim. Entered St Panteleimon in 1837 and was thoroughly familiar with Simonides’ activities 1839-41
Kevin McGrane confusion -
Hilarion
143 This statement is correct. Antonin of course perceived that the "deacon Hilarion' whom Simonides included in his account was not the hierodeacon (i.e. a monk ordained as a deacon) at St Panteleimon but a namesake deacon (who was not a monk) in Constantinople running an errand for the Patriarch, whom Simonides had invented for the purpose. His alter ego Kallinikos mentions the deacon Hilarion
in Smyrna. All those who corresponded about this and gave Antonin his commission naturally perceived the same, and so did not consider that Antonin should be interviewing a Hilarion at St Panteleimon since he did not figure in Simonides' account there. Simonides was careful not to identify hierodeacon Hilarion at St Panteleimon, just as he was careful never to mention the hegumen Gerasim (pretending that Benedict was hegumen) for they were eyewitness of what Simonides got up to in 1840, and were still alive in the 1860s. Indeed they both went on to give testimony against him to the Holy Synod. Since the Hilarion mentioned by Simonides was in Constantinople, and a deacon not a
hierodeacon, there were no persons at St Panteleimon whom Simonides mentions in his account who were still alive
more
Hilarion, hierodeacon, a person very close to the hegumen and to the late Benedict.
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APPENDIX 1
Gerasim. Greek hieromonk (of Bulgarian
ancestry). Born Georgy Vasilyevich (surname
unknown) in 1772 in the village of Evdomista,
diocese of Drama. Ordained a hierodeacon and
hieromonk in the local ancient monastery of
St Bogoroditsa Ikosifinitsa (Kormista, Macedonia).
Entered Mount Athos in 1804 in the skete of St Anna.
Transferred to Koutloumousiou monastery for one
year, and then moved to St Panteleimon Monastery.
Nominated by hegumen Savvas (d. 1821) as his
successor, he became acting hegumen, but during
the Greek uprising against the Turks he left the Holy
Mountain and lived in Morea for 9 years; after the
end of political strife he returned to St Panteleimon
Monastery, where in 1830 he was formally elected hegumen, which was confirmed
by the patriarch in 1833. He died on May 10, 1875.
Close to Benedict and Prokopios Dendrinos and intimately aware of the activities of
Simonides 1839-41. Refused Simonides access to the monastery library 1851-2.
Interviewed by Antonin concerning the ‘Simonides Affair’.
Hilarion. Greek hierodeacon. Born Ioannis Georgiou
(surname unknown) in 1810, in Platamónas, diocese of
Salonica. Lodged with Athanasius, Patriarch of
Jerusalem, and then with Meletius, Metropolitan of
Thessalonica. Entered the St Panteleimon Monastery in
1837. Deputy to hegumen Gerasim. Very close to the
Greek hierodeacon Benedict. Knew Simonides’
activities 1839-41. Died June 30, 1886.
Interviewed by Antonin concerning the ‘Simonides
Affair’.
Signature of Ἱλαριων ἱεροδιακονος
NIcander
Nikandros Philadelphos Georgiadis (1793-1873) (student in Kydonias of Theof. Kairis),
Farmakidis
Nicander (Michael Kalafatas)
His uncle Michael Kalafatas Ioannidis, in 1858, after
. Along with Benedictus and Procopius, an important role for the Revolution in Symi was played by the Secretary of the School Hatziaagapitos Hatziioannou and his associates Simonas Hatzikostas and the Hieromonk Nikandros (Michael Ioannidis)
More from Farmakidis
https://www.purebibleforum.com/inde...more-info-nicolos-farmakidis.4325/#post-18385
p. 398
551. Michael Kalafatas-Ioannidis, a monk named Nikandros, brother of Konstantinos Simonides' mother. Nikandros will attend the Seminary of Poros.
398
Niphon
“Nicander and Niphon, who lent thee the Books of Esdras…”
Hadji John Prodromos - coffee shop in Galata, outskirts of Constantinople
Pappa Prodromos had church in Trebizond on the northern coast (unclear if he saw manuscript)
Anthimus IV - (1785-1874) Patriarch (Bishop) of Constantinople - letter of recommendation
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthimus_IV_of_Constantinople
Anthimus IV of Constantinople, Ecumenical Patriarch in 1840–1841 and 1848–1852
The contra tried to pretend this was a different Anthimus
https://forums.carm.org/threads/codex-sinaiticus-constantine-simonides-the-russian-orthodox-review-vol-10-1863-Православное-Обозрение-1863-Х-p-362ff.15124/page-6#post-1319327
Anthimus III
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthimus_III_of_Constantinople
Anthimus V - emphasized by Nikolos Farmikidis
Anthimus V of Constantinople - Wikipedia
- Anthimus III of Constantinople, Ecumenical Patriarch in 1822–1824
- Anthimus IV of Constantinople, Ecumenical Patriarch in 1840–1841 and 1848–1852
- Anthimus V of Constantinople, Ecumenical Patriarch in 1841–1842
- Anthimus VI of Constantinople, Ecumenical Patriarch in 1845–1848, 1853–1855, and 1871–1873
p. 151-153
Constantius I - (1770-1859) manuscript examination and corrections at Constantinople
1830-1834 ecumenical patriarch of constantinople
not in Genius
Did Simonides write of him as Constantius I in a back-dated writing?
Constantius II was (1789-1859) 1834-1835 ecumenical patriarch of constantinople
Is wiki correct that both died in 1859?
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Germanus - transports manuscript from Antigonus to Sinai
Germanus Subordinate in Athos
May become official at Sinai - more to add
"For I myself saw him with my own eyes, in February, 1840, writing it in Athos; and, owing to the death of the head of the monastery, he left the work unfinished, and went to Constantinople, taking the Codex with him, which also he delivered to the illustrious patriarch Constantius, and he sent it to the monastery in Sinai by a monk of that house, named Germanus, whose subordinate still lives in Athos to attest the writer"
Also Tischendorf saw Germanus in his 1844 visit to Constantinople
Codex Sinaiticus & Constantine Simonides - Anthimus and Constantinople
Why do you think that Tischendorf went to Constantinople and Antigonus, visiting Constantius and Anthimos, after he stole the 43 leaves in 1844? And talked to them about the manuscript. My theory is simple and sensible, somebody in Sinai tipped him off that Antigonus / Constantinople was the...
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Can Germanus have moved from the monk in 1841 who delivered the manuscript from Antigonus to Sinai to become the Patriarch who Tischendorf visited in 1844 (Patriarch June 1842-April 1845) ? With subordinate at Athos.
Is that possible? Your thoughts. Is there a Germanus bio?
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Elliott p. 76-77 - letter from Kallinikos
"delivered to the illustrious patriarch Constantius, and he sent it to the monastery in Sinai by a monk of that house, named Germanus, whose subordinate still lives in Athos to attest the writer."
“... Archimandrite German, secretary of Mt Sinai Monastery at the time of the discovery and transfer of the above manuscript.”
https://expositions.nlr.ru/eng/ex_manus/CodexSinaiticus/zah/3.php#5
"the blessed patriarch Constantius, who sent it to Mount Sinai by the Monk Germanus of Sinai, whom thou knowest,"
This is likely Archimandrite Germanus Aphthonides, who is described as late by Anges Smith Lewis, and who published on Athanasius Comnenus Ypsilanti.
In the extensive writings of Athanasius Ypsilanti ( +1775) recently published by the Archimandrite Germanus Aphthonides of Sinai, bearing the title “Events after the Capture” (of Constantinople), you will find much relating to the Patriarchal See of Antioch.
(A History of the Holy Eastern Church, 1873 John Mason Neale)
https://archive.org/details/ahistoryholyeas03nealgoog
Daniels, Faked p. 70
https://books.google.com/books?id=Ap83EAAAQBAJ&pg=RA1-PA70
continues!
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Germanus_IV_of_Constantinople
not in Genius
Who Faked p. 187 Kindle
Also
https://books.google.com/books?id=Ap83EAAAQBAJ&pg=RA1-PA96
https://nlr.ru/eng_old/exib/CodexSinaiticus/zah/3.html
At the same time, Ignatyev instructed his secretary, A. Kumani, to discuss the subject with the previous Archbishop Cyril residing in Constantinople53. Here is an extract from Kumani's account:
<…> Evidence on the Sinai Bible case provided by Professor Tischendorf, <…> is not fully consistent with explanations offered by Cyril Archbishop of Sinai and Archimandrite German, secretary of Mt Sinai Monastery at the time of the discovery and transfer of the above manuscript. Rather amazingly, both divines maintain that Mt Sinai community never wished, nor even intended to present the Bible to His Majesty the Emperor. <…> Right Rev. Cyril admits this desire on his own part, while insisting that he could not fulfill it just because the brethren still show no inclination whatever to pass the Bible to Russia… (See the memorandum) https://nlr.ru/eng_old/exib/CodexSinaiticus/zah/3_2.html
53 — Count Ignatiev informs thereof Chancellor A.M. Gorchakov in his confidential letter from Bujuk-dere, 14/26 May 1868, no. 135 (AVPRI, f. 161 II-11, op. 50, d. 5, fols. 82r-84r).(back to the text)
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Callistratus
Simonides “archbishop of Libya” “spiritual father”
Kallistratos (1867–1884) Archbishop of Mount Sinai and Raithu
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archbishop_of_Mount_Sinai_and_Raithu
One, likely later, is Cyril Rokidis
"Cyril Rokidis (later named Kallistratos) worked hard during 1867-1868 for an acceptable solution on the Sinai Question and in order to restore the normal rotations between the Patriarch of Jerusalem and the Monastery.
the hieromonk Callistratus, a wise man, and companion of the same house, undertook the comparison of it, and did compare it with other codices of the same house, by command of Constantius, the patriarch.
"thy spiritual father, Callistratus, when he went to Alexandria"
CSP
their election of a new Archbishop, Kallistratos. The latter was duly consecrated by the Patriarch of Jerusalem, but not recognised by either the other Patriarchs and Orthodox Churches or the political authorities, since they continued to consider Kyrillos, who resided in Constantinople after his disavowal by the Brotherhood, as the legitimate and rightful Archbishop. Finally, in 1869, Kallistratos achieved recognition as Archbishop by all canonical and state authorities.
" Cyril Rokidis (later named Kallistratos) worked hard during 1867-1868 Tor an acceptable solution on the Sinai Question "
p. 376
David Daniels
Callistratus got to become Archbishop of Sinai in exchange for saying nothing about the Codex. And his monks received 9,000 gold rubles for the “gift”;
not in Genius - check spelling
Michael Fotiadis went to Constantinople with Simonides in 1841
. Michael Fotiadis Markonis (b. 1775),
Andreas Koromelas (Caromela)- Athens book-seller and printer before time at Athos.
Gabriel - St. Catherine's - the keeper of the treasures
https://books.google.com/books?id=kR82AAAAMAAJ&pg=PA223
The one before Gabriel is unnamed, who gave Tischendorf access to the manuscript.
"I certified them that this MS. of the Scriptures is still preserved in Sinai (as thou also knowest), because I saw it there with my own eyes when I was in the Monastery of St. Catherine in 1845 in the month of July, and handled it with my own hands, and found it very defective, and somewhat changed; and when I asked the reason, I understood from Gabriel, the keeper of the treasures, that his predecessor had given the manuscript to a German, who visited the monastery in 1844 in the month of May, and who having had the MS. in his hands several days, secretly removed a part of it, and went away during the time that the librarian lay ill, afflicted with a typhoid fever."
not in Genius
Gabriel - Kallinikos = Keeper of the Treasures (i.e. the Skeuophylax or Sacristan) in 1858 σκευοφύλαξ mentioned by Tisch?
David Daniels uses Skeuophilax- it was Vitalios or Vitaly who said not Tischendorf in 1859
NOTE: (See also Grenzboten)
Elliott p. 71
“Neither Dionysius the scribe nor Germanus the monk nor Hilarion the deacon nor John Podromos [sic] the coffee-house keeper were called upon to corroborate the story."
Charles Stewart (Steuart, Charles B. Stewart)- writes biographical Memoir - testifies to Simonides manuscript involvement by 1860
"Simonides first committed to writing in England (in a letter to Mr. Charles Stewart, dated 4th (16th) January, 1860) his version of the history of the Codex Sinaiticus." Stewart had moved to Canada but could have been contacted about his time when they discussed the manuscript.
Henry Stewart - based on Periplus, he would also be able to give testimony about Simonides and manuscripts, and possibly Sinaiticus in the critical 1859-1860 period.
John Eliot Hodgkin - would learn about the Sinaiticus issues before they were made public.
28 in Genius
PBF quotes Elliott
Kallinikos note about Damascus and Jerusalem - Markos (Charkos) and Dorotheus and Joasaph
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The reinstatement of the Code after its publication was guaranteed by the Russian ambassador in Constantinople,
Also involved early
John Newton who showed CFA book and maybe Benjamin Wills Newton, cousin of Tregelles)
Drakakes - medical student
Also editor of the Literary Churchman "saw" acrostics and Kallinikos
Both letters appeared in The Guardian. A point from an earlier letter by Wright is commented on by L. Drakachis, who announces himself as a friend of Simonides. He was a medical student introduced to Simonides at J.E. Hodgkin’s
request by his uncle Dr. Thomas Hodgkin to act as an interpreter.
mcgrane says his translator
Tischendorf -
already concerned about Simonides in 1859 en route to monastery
writes of Simonides claiming to use "mountains of Athos manuscripts"
The Moscow Bible and Montfaucon on Greek Palaeography would be easily available as well
Hort and others know of claim by Dec, 1861
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2 Pavlos P. Peppas Aeginitis (Student of the Central School and Teacher at the "Orphanage"). Archive of the Academy of Athens. It bears number 403 and the seal of the Academy. Treasurer's correspondence from Treasurer no.
Konstantinos Oikonomos
We must note that Constantios I died on January 6, 1859, Oikonomos in 1857 and Sturtzas in 1854.
https://www.biblicaltraining.org/library/constantine-oikonomos
1780-1857. Greek scholar and theologian. A keen patriot, he was active in politics as well as ecclesiastical affairs, and strongly opposed Western influences in Greek life which had assumed increasing importance in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. He wrote works on philology and the history of literature, but his most notable achievement was a massive four-volume study of the Septuagint in over 3,700 pages, published in Athens, 1844-49, entitled Peri tomn ho hermemneutomn. He believed the Septuagint text was canonical and inspired rather than the Massoretic text, an idea rarely held. Even so, it contained much useful information, e.g., concerning the difference in chronology between the Greek and Hebrew texts.
Barnabas 1843, published by
Rodokanaki
Rhodokanakis Rodokanakis
Rhodocanakis Georgios -
Do not have date of birth-death
Rhodocanakis, Georgios - Rodokanakis, Georg D. - (1838) Regierungs-Blatt des Königreichs Griechenland: (amtliche Übersetzung aus dem ... - Hellas - Rhodocanakis Georgios
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Cyrillos the Corrupt - was Tischendorf's guy at the monastery, exposed as ultra-corrupt
Kallinikos the Absent -echos Cyrillos to Silvester Davies, for William Aldis Wright and the Investigative Clowns
Vitaly the sacristan at St. Catherine's
https://www.purebibleforum.com/inde...spensky-actions-and-writings.2837/#post-12435
Kevin McGrane makes a point about not mentioning
Gerasim (1772-1875) from Russico Hegumen Gerasim 'the Svjatogorets'
In addition to the lies from Nicolaides, there were denials from the Dionysius monastery.
And a puzzling letter perhaps from Russico printed in Russian
Lycurgus (Lycorgus, Lycourgas, Lykurgos) knows Simonides in Athens and Germany. It would be interesting to find any comments he made on Sinaiticus, Canfora indicated some notes relating to Simonides on the CFA, but that has not panned out.
Lycurgas has frequent correspondence with:
Oikonomos ex Oikonomon, whom he calls a teacher. To him, he admonishes...
Constantine Oikonomos of the Oikonomoi (Greek: Κωνσταντίνος Οικονόμος ο εξ Οικονόμων), also Constantine Economos,
https://orthodoxwiki.org/Constantine_Oikonomos
- Oeconomus, Constantinus
- Oikonomidēs, Kōnstantinos
- Oikonomos, Kōnstandinos
- Oikonomos, Kōnstantinos
- Oikonomos, Kōnstantinos O.
- Oikonomōn, Kōnstantinos Oikonomos ho ex
- Philippoupolitos, Konstantinos Oikonomos
- Ėkonom, Konstantin
And he does come up in Farmakidis
Amphilochius
Constantine Simonides & Codex Sinaiticus - letter from Amphilochius 1863
Inquiries were made about Simonide's and Kallinikos in Egypt, in 1863. And, eventually, the reply came from a Greek clergyman by the monastic name "Amphilochius" who was a fellow monk at Mt Athos at the same time when Simonide's was there, and who knew about his background. He gave his honest...
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Amphilochius gives a letter negative to Simonides in 1863 in Elliott but does not cover manuscript, etc. It involves Gerasim and Dionysius and whether there was a stash of mss.
"the Odessa school Simonides became acquainted with Amphilochius during 1841-2, who confirms that he had “a slight knowledge of the rudiments of our ancient Greek language ..."
Benedict and more is confirmed by Amphilochius of Pelusium
p. 118-120 Elliott
p. 120 - Meletius of Syme
Moreover when Mr. C. Simonides came to Alexandria in 1852, about the month of August, he resided on board the ship George and Minna of Maliaracades, Captain Nicolas, and sailed with that ship for England. He sometimes, however, slept at the wine—shop of the Cyprist, George Televantos; but I do not believe that he went to Mount Sinai; and he never resided in the Monastery of St. Saba.
Alexandria, July 26th, 1863.
Meletius of Syme,
Note material in Orthodox Review 1863 with letter in Russian.
Recommendations - Letters of Credence
Procopius - Simonides went to visit Anthimos, the renowned Patriarch of Constantinople, and brought him recommendations from several of the principal persons of Athos, and especially one from Procopius, a sacred officer of the Church of the Greeks. - 1859 Memoir
Symais 1849 - Anthimus IV (above)
Symais 1849 - Xenophon Pappadatos
Symais 1849 - Colonel Tzami Karatassos
Saint Beuve -Paris
cousin of Simonides on his mother's side, the hieromonk Sabbas,
the holy monk Sabbas, who afterwards became a dignitary of the mountain
(helped with the Benedict stash)
"Athens, 1854, edited by Skatharos."
Mordtmann, who was travelled around with Simonides in Constantinople,
Leaving aside the Hermas connection for now.
David W. Daniels
https://books.google.com/books?id=Ap83EAAAQBAJ&pg=RA1-PA54
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