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Fingers Better Than Eyes

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Parent Issue
Day
24
Month
June
Year
1898
Copyright
Public Domain
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The manner in which the late Dr. H. O. Coxe, librarian of the Bodleian library at Oxford for many years, dlscovered the falseness of the gospel manuscripts gotten up by Constantine Simonides, which deceived all the G-erman professors, is told in the old gentleman's own words in a recent number of the Spectator. It was nis delicate touch that helped him, as he did not look at a page of the manuscript. He told the story as follows: "I never really opened the book, but I held it in my hand and took one page of it between my flnger and thumb while I listened to the rascal's account of how he found this most interesting antiquity. At the end of three or four minutes I handed it back to him with the short comment: 'Nineteenth century paper, my dear sir,' and he took it away in a hurry and did not come again. Yes, I was pleased. But I have handled several ancient manuscripts in my time and I know the teel of old paper."

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Ann Arbor Argus
Old News