"The mystery is now solved from textual, chemical, and codicological (bookmaking) angles," said Margaret M. Mitchell, who first became intrigued by the codex when she saw it as a graduate student in 1982. Comprehensive analysis demonstrates that it is not a genuine Byzantine manuscript, but a counterfeit, she said, "made somewhere between 1874 and the first decades of the 20th century."
Byzantine Gospel of Mark a forgery say scientists
Submitted by Milica on Sun, 2009-12-27 08:26
A recent scientific study of the Archaic Mark, a 44-page codex, believed to be "an important witness to the early text of the gospel," has been proven to be a 19th century forgery according to a team of experts from the university of Chicago.
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