by Ross Nichols | Aug 23, 2021
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, 2021
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, 2021
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...
by Ross Nichols | Aug 17, 2021
“On Friday, Clermont-Ganneau returned to the museum where he was informed with ‘great regret’ by Edward Augustus Bond, the principal librarian, that Mr. Shapira had ‘expressly refused his consent’ for him to inspect the fragments. The Frenchman would describe his...
by Ross Nichols | Aug 16, 2021
On Thursday, 16 August 1883, a reporter from the Liverpool Daily Post expressed, on behalf of the believers in the authenticity of the leather strips, that if the manuscript was a forgery, Dr. Ginsburg would have already declared them as such. The fact that he had...
