I don't think the Shepherd of Hermas is related to the Byrennios manuscript. Your writing in the first sentences seems to separate Bryennios manuscript and H, which are the same.2 inch fragments can only be scraps of evidence. and scraps are not very important. It's not the difference Hoole points out; it's the additions that the Bryennios manuscript has, that just happen to be from the non-NT parts of Sinaiticus (Epistle of Barnabas and the Shepherd Of Hermas). Coming shortly after S and H were "discovered".
And Byrrenios "discovers" his manuscript in a library that the "discoverer" of S, Tischenduper, had visited on his route back from, and in posession of, his "discovery" (a detour of a thousand miles at a time Wickedpaedia claims he was broke). During which time he confers with Bryennios' lord and master, the Patriarch.
The Tischendorf-Bryennios manuscript connection above is a bit tenuous.
Statistics: Posted by Steven Avery — Sun Jan 21, 2024 5:12 pm