Greek Library, Manuscript?

FRAGMENTS

OF THE GOSPEL OF LUKE AND THE BOOK OF GENESIS

FROM

THREE GREEK CODICES A codex is an ancient book format consisting of handwritten pages bound together, rather than a scroll. OF THE FIFTH, SIXTH, AND EIGHTH CENTURIES,

ONE A PALIMPSEST original: "palimpsesto." A palimpsest is a manuscript where the original text was scraped off so the parchment could be reused; Tischendorf was famous for using chemicals to "recover" the hidden older text underneath. BROUGHT FROM LIBYA TO THE BRITISH MUSEUM,

THE SECOND, THE RENOWNED COTTONIAN MANUSCRIPT, RESCUED FROM THE FLAMES,

This refers to the "Cotton Genesis," a famous 5th-century manuscript that was nearly destroyed in the 1731 fire at Ashburnham House.

AND THE THIRD, MOST RECENTLY BROUGHT FROM THE EAST TO OXFORD.

THERE HAVE BEEN ADDED

SIMILAR FRAGMENTS OF BOTH THE NEW AND OLD TESTAMENTS

RECENTLY DISCOVERED AMONG THE REMAINS OF SIX MOST ANCIENT CODICES.

NOW FOR THE FIRST TIME UNCOVERED AND EDITED BY

AENOTHEUS FRIEDRICH CONSTANTINE TISCHENDORF,

DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY AND THEOLOGY, HONORARY ORDINARY PUBLIC PROFESSOR OF THEOLOGY AT THE UNIVERSITY OF LEIPZIG,

KNIGHT OF THE ROYAL SAXON ORDER OF ALBERT THE VALIANT, THE ROYAL PRUSSIAN ORDER OF THE RED EAGLE (THIRD CLASS), THE ROYAL SWEDISH ORDER OF THE

NORTH STAR, THE IMPERIAL FRENCH LEGION OF HONOR, THE ROYAL SARDINIAN ORDER OF SAINTS MAURICE AND LAZARUS, THE ROYAL GREEK ORDER OF

THE MOST HOLY REDEEMER, AND THE DUCAL PARMESE ORDER OF SAINT LOUIS; MEMBER OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY OF SCIENCES AT UPPSALA, THE HAGUE SOCIETY FOR THE

DEFENSE OF THE CHRISTIAN RELIGION, THE HISTORICAL THEOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF LEIPZIG, AND THE GERMAN ORIENTAL SOCIETY.

Ornate printer's mark featuring the monogram "HB" (for J. C. Hinrichs, Bookseller) intertwined with a complex design of stylized floral stems and scrolls.

AT LEIPZIG,

J. C. HINRICHS, BOOKSELLER.

1857.

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