Christian Texts and History • young and old leaves from the same manuscript ???

And the fragment that one of those two monks used in the binding was already a fragment when it was reused;
in other words, in the 1700s, that fragment was already worn and already quite
OLD.

We often have a Sinaiticus anomaly.

Hundreds of leaves are like new, beautiful pristine parchment, often with super-ink, and do not have the acid-ink corrosion that is normal for iron gall ink om parchment.
(And 86 pages are pale white parchment, they forgot to get “yellow with age”)

“Phenomenally good condition” - Helen Shelton

“the conservation conditions of CS are absolutely perfect” - Sara Mazzarino

And then another page is said to be old!

How can this be in the same manuscript, young and old leaves together?

Statistics: Posted by Steven Avery — Mon Jan 08, 2024 5:57 pm

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