Christian Texts and History • nice 180-year-old parchment and ink, the London pages coloured to appear “yellow with age”

Also obvious: portions of the codex were separated and experienced differing storage environments, with differing preservation outcomes.
Portions of Joshua did not fare well.
As is also similarly seen with other ancient manuscripts.

There are not "portions" of Joshua.

One torn-up fragment that was placed in the New Finds dump room.
https://codexsinaiticus.org/en/manuscri ... omSlider=0
Anything that was in the dump room for 125 years or so can be very problematic, moisture, animals, etc.

The earlier handling would be essentially the same as 1 Chronicles where you can see fine parchment both from the white Leipzig and the coloured and stained St. Petersburg page.

Nice 180-year-old parchment and ink, the London pages coloured to appear “yellow with age”

Statistics: Posted by Steven Avery — Mon Jan 08, 2024 9:45 pm

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