Word: augustanus
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...tossed aside for lighting fires. Scholar Tischendorf recognized the vellum leaves as fragments of an ancient Greek biblical text. He asked for more. The St. Catherine monks showed him some, refused to part with them. Scholar Tischendorf took home what he had, published it as the Codex Friderico-Augustanus for his patron, King Frederick Augustus of Saxony. He returned twice to Sinai, the second time under the patronage of Tsar Alexander II Oi Russia. He was shown more manuscript, including the Epistle of Barnabas which was not previously known to exist in Greek. This he spent a whole night frantically...
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