1. Add MS 42502 A-B
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Add MS 42502 A-B
- Title:
- SIMONIDES PAPERS. Correspondence and papers of and relating to Constantine Simonides, the forger, collected by John Eliot Hodgkin, the antiquary; 1821-1868. The correspondence is largely concerned with papyri and MSS. which Simonides claimed to have acquired in the Near East or to have discovered in the Egyptological collections of Joseph Mayer, F.S.A., of Liverpool, and also with his claim to have written the Codex Sinaiticus. An account of Simonides, based partly on the present papers, is...
- Scope & Content:
- Constantine Simonides, forger: Correspondence and papers of and rel. to: 19th cent.: Gr. and Engl. Forgeries: Correspondence, etc., of and rel. to C. Simonides: 19th cent.: Gr. and Engl.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- English, German, Greek, Modern, Italian, and Romanian
- Date Range:
- 1821-1868
- Extent:
- 2 items