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Zosimas Studies
https://www.purebibleforum.com/index.php/threads/a.568
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With the help and study of Rohan Meyer, we tracked down Claromontanus (or its sister manuscript) as one source for Sinaiticus.
Now let us look for the Zosima (Zosimas) Moscow Bible:
Here is the main primary source, from Simonides:
This is mentioned a few more times in that JSL publication.
Zosimas Studies
https://www.purebibleforum.com/index.php/threads/a.568
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With the help and study of Rohan Meyer, we tracked down Claromontanus (or its sister manuscript) as one source for Sinaiticus.
Now let us look for the Zosima (Zosimas) Moscow Bible:
Dionysius, the professed calligrapher of the monastery, was afraid to undertake the task, Simonides commenced it at the request of his uncle, who provided him with that edition of the Greek Bible which the brothers Zosimas, wealthy Russian merchants, had defrayed the cost of publishing at Moscow. This Moscow Bible, after having been collated with three ancient manuscripts and the printed edition of the Codex Alexandrinus, so as to be cleared from many errors (the old spelling however remaining unaltered), was given to Simonides to transcribe.
A Full Collation of the Codex Sinaiticus with the Received Text of the New Testament (1864)
Scrivener
https://books.google.com/books?id=CNmOa7HaS6EC&pg=PR64
Darby, who uses Tischendorf and Scrivener as main sources, misses the point that the Moscow Bible would be used as a major source for the OT, but not necessarily the NT. The simple textual facts, and the discovery of the Claromontanus homoeoteleutons, shows that the NT likely received special, and different, attention.Simonides ... His statement is that the Moscow Greek Bible, published at the cost of the brothers Zosimas, in 1821, and collated with three ancient manuscripts and the printed edition of Cod. Alex., was what he had to transcribe ... Certainly it could not be the Cod. Sin. that he wrote for his uncle. The Moscow Bible is simply a copy of the Textus Receptus.
The Sinaiticus Manuscript: Brief Account of Its Discovery and of Its Character
Bible Treasury: Volume 8 - (likely John Nelson Darby - Dec 1, 1870)
https://books.google.com/books?id=yD08AQAAMAAJ&pg=PA190
https://bibletruthpublishers.com/the-sinaiticus-manuscript-brief-account-of-its-discovery-and-of-its-character/bible-treasury-volume-8/la67034
Here is the main primary source, from Simonides:
Having then examined the principal copies of the Holy Scriptures preserved at Mount Athos, I began to practice the principles of calligraphy; and the learned Benedict, taking a copy of the Moscow edition of both Testaments (published and presented to the Greeks by the illustrious brothers Zosimas), collated it with the ancient ones, and by this means cleared it of many errors, after which he gave it into my hands to transcribe. - Simonides, published in the Guardian, Sept 3 1862, p. 211
Journal of Sacred Literature (1863)
https://books.google.com/books?id=vvgDAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA211
This is mentioned a few more times in that JSL publication.
... Simonides speaks of
'a copy of the Moscow edition of both Testaments, published and presented to the Greeks by the illustrious brothers Zosimas.'
Upon which you asked —
'Is it impossible to ascertain so simple a point as whether the Moscow booksellers, Zosimas, sent a copy of the Moscow Bible to the Greeks for their use ?’
This is a misunderstanding of Simonides’ words. The brothers Zosimas were not booksellers, but wealthy Russian merchants, who, having obtained leave from the Holy Synod, at their own cost published an edition of the Greek Bible at Moscow, thus presenting it to the Greek Church. p. 221Frederick Field - December 23, 1862
Bible Treasury
John Nelson Darby
https://books.google.com/books?id=yD08AQAAMAAJ&pg=PA188
http://www.stempublishing.com/magazines/bt/BT08/1870_188_Sinai_Manuscript.html
https://www.printfriendly.com/print?customCSSURL=&disableClickToDel=1&disableEmail=0&disablePDF=0&disablePrint=1&headerImageUrl=&headerTagline=&imageDisplayStyle=left&imagesSize=full-size&source=cs&url_s=uGGCF_~_PdN_~_PcS_~_PcSovoyrGEHGuCHoyvFurEFmpBz_~_PcSGur-FvAnvGvpHF-znAHFpEvCG-oEvrs-nppBHAG-Bs-vGF-qvFpBIrEL-nAq-Bs-vGF-punEnpGrE_~_PcSovoyr-GErnFHEL-IByHzr-i_~_PcSCntr-FunEr_~_PcSyKCF-yn-ghade
Enough has been said to expose the falseness of Dr. C. Simonides' claim to have written the Sinai MS. thirty years ago, and this not with a view to impose on any one, but simply as an honest present from his uncle Benedict to the late Emperor Nicholas! It is true that he was already notorious for his efforts to palm off certain MSS. as of the highest antiquity, which can scarcely be imputed to any other source than his own admirable skill in calligraphy. His statement is that the Moscow Greek Bible, published at the cost of the brothers Zosimas, in 1821, and collated with three ancient manuscripts and the printed edition of God. Alex., was what he had to transcribe; and that, his uncle being meanwhile dead, he gave the work, in 1841, to Constantius, that very Archbishop of Sinai whose death early in 1859 or before it caused a delay, when Tischendorf saw the MS. as a whole and sought to have it presented to the Emperor of Russia.
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