Sinaticus problematicus

[Steven Avery]

In the early 1860s, it was stated very clearly what had occurred, that you can see today very easily thanks to the superb photography efforts of the Codex Sinaiticus Project of 2009.

"the codex also was cleaned with lemon-juice, professedly for the purpose of cleaning its parchments, but in reality in order to weaken the freshness of the letters, as was actually the case."

"much altered, having an older appearance than it ought to have"

“Mr. Bradshaw’s very proper and natural query – ‘How is it possible that a MS. written beautifully, and with no intention to deceive, in 1840, should in 1862 present so ancient an appearance?’ I answer simply thus: The MS. had been systematically tampered with, in order to give it an ancient appearance, as early as 1852, when, as I have already stated, it had an older appearance than it ought to have had …”

the manuscript had been “cleaned, with a solution of herbs, on the theory that the skins might be cleaned, but, in fact, that the writing might be changed, as it was, to a sort of yellow colour."

(the manuscript had been) “cleaned with lemon-juice, professedly for the purpose of washing the vellum, but, in reality, to weaken the freshness of the letters."

More quote detail refs at:

the early 1860s references to the colouring of the manuscript
http://www.purebibleforum.com/showth...ighlight=herbs