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...Until 1947, Arthur Arberry kept himself clear of all this. Then one day a wealthy collector brought him a slim, yellowed volume of Persian poetry. Sure enough, reported Arberry, "There it was ... the oldest copy of Omar Khayyám's poems hitherto discovered ... The celebrated [Bodleian] codex had been bettered by exactly two centuries . . . This was more than human curiosity could resist...
...Mexican art at the Museum of Modern Art (see p. 57), a program of Mexican music was worked out by Mexico's swart, amiable, unruly-locked Composer-Conductor Carlos Chavez. A collection of ancient instruments in the Mexican National Museum, and such tomes of conquistador times as the Codex Florentinus (a compilation of Indian folklore, with many a crude illustration-see cut), were all the proof Composer Chavez could give that his fanciful reconstruction called Xochi-pili-Macuilxochitl after the Aztec god of music, the dance, flowers, love-was the real stuff. But it really sounded like an Aztec...
Biblical scholars periodically get excited when, in the sands of Egypt or the Near East, someone turns up what is called "the world's oldest Biblical text." Famed for its comparative completeness is Codex Sinaiticus of the 4th Century, sold by Soviet-Russia to England (TIME, Jan. 1, 1934 et seq.). For a time the oldest known gospel fragments were some 3rd Century papyri owned by Alfred Chester Beatty, onetime U. S. millionaire, now a British subject. Year ago the British Museum acquired some unidentified 2nd Century Greek papyri paralleling St. John (TIME, Feb. 4). Last December...
Strictly speaking the British Museum bought the famed Codex Sinaiticus from the Soviet Government (TIME, Jan. 1 et seq.) and His Majesty's Government merely agreed to pay such part of the £100,000 as could not be raised by public subscription. The debate last week was provoked by announcement that the Ex chequer will have...
When the British Government acquired the Codex Sinaiticus, famed Fourth Century Bible manuscript, from the Soviet Government, it announced that if the public contributed half the ?100,000 ($511,250) purchase price the Government would do the rest (TIME, Jan. 1 et seq.). Laborites in Parliament raised a mighty squawk, when they heard that the Codex had already arrived in London and the money paid over. It looked as though the Government was saddled with the expense, whether or no. But last week the Laborites were mollified when the Archbishop of Canterbury announced that the public had contributed its full...