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Soon after the British Museum bought from the Soviet Government its famed Codex Sinaiticus (TIME, Jan. 1), a campaign was begun to raise half the cost ($511,250) by public subscription. The Codex's vellum pages of Old and New Testament in Greek were placed on view in the British Museum. Peering at them an old lady cackled: "Have they ever been translated...
Last week the British Museum was heckled from the monastery on Mt. Sinai where in 1844 the Codex was discovered by German Scholar Constantine Tischendorf. According to monks of the monastery, Tischendorf took the Codex to Cairo pleading that he must study it in a warm climate. He went to the Russian Consulate and, thus on Russian soil, defied the monks to get their Codex back. Tischendorf gave the manuscript to Tsar Alexander II who reimbursed the monastery with a paltry $3,500. Last week Porphyries III, Archbishop of Sinai, detailed all this in a long, indignant cablegram...
...WILLIAM ANDERSON Pittsburgh, Pa. "Borrowed" Codex Sirs...
...spent a week in the Greek Monastery of St. Catherine at the foot of Mt. Sinai, on the traditional site of the burning bush (not "atop Mount St. Catherine'': Mount St. Catherine is the adjoining peak); and there learned the facts concerning the Codex Sinaiticus. These are at variance with the conventional story, which you summarize in your issue...
...Manhattan last week Bibliophile Abraham Simon Wolf Rosenbach said that $511,250 for the Codex Sinaiticus was the largest sum ever paid for a book or manuscript, that the U. S. S. R. had offered it to him last year...