Chicago's “Archaic Mark” (ms 2427) II Microscopic, Chemical and Codicological Analyses Confirm Modern Production
Authors: Mitchell, Margaret M.1; Barabe, Joseph G.2; Quandt, Abigail B.3
Source: Novum Testamentum, Volume 52, Number 2, 2010 , pp. 101-133(33)
Publisher: BRILL
Abstract:
Comprehensive testing and analysis (microscopic, chemical and codicological) of University of Chicago ms 972-Gregory-Aland ms 2427 confirms that it is a modern production made sometime between 1874 and the first decades of the 20th century.Keywords: manuscript; Gospel of Mark; forgery; spectroscopy; illumination; parchment; codex Vaticanus
Document Type: Research article
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/004810010X12591327956349
Affiliations: 1: Chicago, Illinois 2: Westmont, Illinois 3: Baltimore, Maryland
Publication date: 2010-03-01
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- In this Subject: Arts and Humanities , History , Religion
- By this author: Mitchell, Margaret M. ; Barabe, Joseph G. ; Quandt, Abigail B.

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