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
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New Research #7
This installment of “New Research” draws attention to two contributions in the latest issue of Le Muséon, an open access anthology and a contribution therein on early Christian Arabic colophons, as well as an interesting upcoming conference. The latest issue (136/1-2) of Le Muséon contains a contribution by Christa Müller-Kessler entitled “The Early Jerusalem Lectionary… Continue reading New Research #7
Greek Fragments in Göttingen and Bryn Mawr and Their Previous Owners
1. Last year, Georgi Parpulov published a short piece entitled “Membra disiecta sinaitica Graeca” in Fragmentology 5 (2022).1. Although the article is only 7 pages long, in it Parpulov accomplishes a lot: he identifies 18 dispersed fragments of Greek manuscripts from Sinai – not counting the joins identified among Sinai’s New Finds. These 18 manuscripts… Continue reading Greek Fragments in Göttingen and Bryn Mawr and Their Previous Owners