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Annual Report #2

1. This is the second annual report of the project Membra Dispersa Sinaitica (the first one can be found here). I mainly use these annual reports to reflect on what I have achieved with the project in the past year, what went well and what didn’t, and where the journey should go in the coming… Continue reading Annual Report #2

“Simonides Is Still Alive!”: An Interview with Author Rüdiger Schaper about His Biography of a Manuscript Forger

1. Hunting for rare books, collecting mania, true forgeries, falsified history, fictional elements in biographical writing – these are just some of the topics I talked about with author Rüdiger Schaper. He has dedicated a biography to the famous forger Constantine Simonides.1 After the publication of Codex Sinaiticus by Tischendorf, Simonides went public with the… Continue reading “Simonides Is Still Alive!”: An Interview with Author Rüdiger Schaper about His Biography of a Manuscript Forger

Collecting Clues: A Forged Colophon and the Trade in Sinaitic Manuscripts

1. Imagine an old manuscript falls into your hands. You realise it is valuable and you want to turn it into money. You may even know someone potentially interested in buying the manuscript. Its monetary value is directly related to its age. The only problem is you don’t know exactly how old the manuscript is.… Continue reading Collecting Clues: A Forged Colophon and the Trade in Sinaitic Manuscripts

New Research #2

Proofs came in for Variant Scholarship. A book about ancient texts in modern contexts. With @mokersel and @JjosseMunch. More info at https://t.co/Qbex6Oogxo pic.twitter.com/ecUhgEcpOj — Sidestone Press (@sidestonepress) February 20, 2023 Today, Neil Brodie, Morag M. Kersel, and Josephine Munch Rasmussen have published a fantastic-looking edited volume entitled Variant Scholarship: Ancient texts in modern contexts (Leiden:… Continue reading New Research #2