by Ross Nichols | Aug 27, 2022
On Monday, 27 August 1883, the long-awaited and much-anticipated conclusions of Dr. Christian Ginsburg appeared in the pages of The Times. That which appeared was a copy of the report that Ginsburg had given Bond on Wednesday, 22 August, the day after...
by Ross Nichols | Aug 25, 2022
On 25 August 1883, The Athenæum published the third and final installment of Dr. Ginsburg’s transcription and translation of the manuscript strips. The article began, “This concludes the original and the translation of the MS. as far as it was necessary for...
by Ross Nichols | Aug 23, 2022
Seemingly hurried to make a public statement following Clermont-Ganneau’s report published in The Times on 21 August, Dr. Ginsburg turned in a report to Mr. Bond on the next day. Like Clermont-Ganneau, Ginsburg also declared that the strips were forged. The...
by Ross Nichols | Aug 21, 2022
On Tuesday, 21 August 1883, readers of The Times would read the opinions of Monsieur Clermont-Ganneau and Claude Conder in regard to Mr. Shapira’s Manuscripts.[1] The following is a translation of a letter we have received from M. Clermont-Ganneau: “I...
by Ross Nichols | Aug 18, 2022
On Saturday, 18 August 1883, Monsieur Clermont-Ganneau completed his second of two days of what he called an “unpleasant task” of examining the two fragments of the MS displayed in the King’s Library. He wrote his assessment on this day, but it would not appear until...
