Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1893-05-11
THE NEWLY FOUND GOSPELS,
4 Chat with Their Discoverer Abou
Their Origin and Purposes.
New York Trihune

ton to search the Scriptures" mas been
carried out in the face of such difficult
ties as must have attended the recent
discovery of the palimpscst containing
a Syriac text of the Gospels by Mrs.
Lewis, in the Convent Of st. Katharine,
on Mount Sinai. What those difficult
ties were Mrs. Lewis was good enough
70 explain to representative Of We 50.
James Gazette, who gives the following
account OF the conversation;
what is palimpscst?" ! inquired;
for the slight figure clad in deep mourn
ing, and the soft voice that welcomed
me, urged me to confession of abject
ignorance.
"A palmpsest is manuscript whose
original contents have been partially
eilacod that the vellum might be written
upon again. This was frequently done
IN ancient days when vellum was scarce,
and the Syriac Gospels we have Just dis
covered are case in point. The thick,
black writing you sec in the photograph
was written over the gospels in i7S, and
is series Of lives of female saints,
signed John Elhabash.' Ii was only
by observing the word Eyangclium,'
family inscribed at the top of the page,
that diyined the possibility of the sub
writing being a text of the Gospcls--a
guess which upon examination proved
to be correct"
How did YOU obtain access to the old
documents, Mrs. Lewis? -
well, you see, but for that difficulty
this discovery might hayo been made
long ago The treachery Of 'Eischen.
dort, who failed 10 return the MSS. lent
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ia eyamime tbn;r i;hrnr. w." W.
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