Codex Sinaiticus: Assigned Date, Documented History
Codex Sinaiticus is conventionally assigned to late antiquity, possibly noticed in 1761, and unmistakably documented from 1844. Those claims must be stated separately.
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Codex Vaticanus: Assigned Date, Documented History
Codex Vaticanus is conventionally assigned to the fourth century and securely documented in the Vatican collection in the fifteenth. Those are different claims, supported by different evidence.
Open record →Palaeography: A Real Tool with Real Limits
Handwriting comparison can place an undated manuscript within a useful historical range. It cannot make every letter form a clock or turn stylistic resemblance into a dated colophon.
Open record →“Attested By” Is Not “Composed In”
The earliest surviving witness tells us that wording existed by a certain point. It does not, by itself, tell us when that wording originated—or authorize an arbitrary century-long…
Open record →Four Dates Every Manuscript Claim Must Separate
A manuscript’s manufacture, the age of its wording, its scholarly date assignment, and its documented provenance are four different chronological claims. Honest textual history must name which one…
Open record →From Jewish Translations to Christian Pandects
The road from early Jewish Greek translations to the great Christian codices passed through centuries of revision, copying, and collection. A later pandect may preserve ancient readings, but…
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