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...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 copying, exclaiming, "It is a crime to sleep!" Before long he had induced the St. Catherine monks to give the manuscript to the Tsar as protector of their church...
...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...
...happily, it is accompanied by faithful, intelligent, and occasionally inspired research. There are many satisfying stories: The name Sherlock, at the last moment, supported that of I. Sherrinford, Watson was originally Ormond Sacker,--and to prove it there is reprinted a cut of the first page of Doyle's manuscript. Doyle, himself, engaged in detective activities with gratifying success. Four publishers sniffed at the "Study in Scarlet" before Ward, Lock & Co. achieved immortality by purchasing the copyright for 25 pounds...
What the nuns and the gapers liked best was Morgan Manuscript No. 1, the great Ashburnham Gospels (probably executed between 825-850), lettered in pure gold on purple vellum leaves, bound in golden plates set with ancient rubies and emeralds. Even more valuable for theological students was a case of 9th & 10th Century Coptic manuscripts, one in its original covers, dug from the edge of an oasis by Arabs searching for tillable soil. There was much more to dazzle the imagination: the purple vellum Gospels supposed to have been given to Henry VIII by Pope Leo X; the 10th Century...
This is the first disciplinary action for intoxication taken by the college, so far as the manuscript, written by Danforth as he presided over the court, is occupied by the testimony of the Harvard men. Whether the Harvard men were summoned first because they were the worst offenders or because Danforth, due to his position as treasurer of the College, wanted to get them out of court as soon as possible, is hard to tell. James Alling, whose age Danforth wrote down as "about 17," was the Freshman in whose rooms the party started. It is interesting to note that...