Part 2 (continued) - Simonades contined:

"I wrote letters not long since in the same style with a common pen and upon ordinary paper to the Editor of the Guardian; to Professor Shillito or Cambridge; Mr. Henry Bradshaw, keeper of MSS. in the university library of Cambridge... If you doubt my ability in such matters, which both enemies and friends are forced to acknowledge, your friend. Dr. Tischendorf, even, says as follows : - Simonides received an excellent education, and, when a young man, spent a considerable time in the Greek monasteries at Mount Athos, occupying himself almost exclusively in the study of ancient MSS., by means of which, especially," (Page 229) he greatly enriched his knowledge of the Greek and Egyptian antiquities. At the same time he employed himself very much in drawing and lithography, in which he became very skillful ; and this skill was turned to account afterwards, when he copied the ancient MSS. Moreover, by vigorous study and many voyages in Asia and Africa, Simonides arrived at the climax of superiority io philology, particularly in the knowledge of the wonderful art of ancient MSS. ... I admit that, according to your judgment it may be so, but according to mine — I, who am called Daedalus by some of the journals, it is quite possible, and by no means laborious ; ... I know that I wrote 1,205 pages in eight months, and ceased from the work only because the skins failed ... And yet I transcribed a prepared work, being nineteen years of age, ... Knowing this, I say to you again that the MS. of the Sacred Scriptures taken from Mount Sinai by Tischendorf is my production, and by no means ancient. (Page 230)" ...

From Letter of C. Simonides, The Journal of Sacred Literature and Biblical Record, September 1862: "being short of parchment, I selected from the ; -library of the monastery, with Benedict's permission, a very bulky volume, .antiquely bound, and almost entirely blank, the parchment of which was (page 215)

remarkably clean, and beautifully finished. This had been prepared many centuries ago — probably by the writer or by the principal of the monastery, as it bore the Inscription, (a collection of Panegyrics), and also a short discourse, much injured by time. (Page 216)