the Genesis 23-24 fragments - kept in Russia and controversy with Simonides

[Steven Avery]

A second visit in 1853 enabled him to print in the next volume of the Monumenta (1857) two short fragments of Genesis (xxiv. 9, 10, 41�43).

An Introduction to the Old Testament in Greek (1914)
Henry Barclay Swete
https://books.google.com/books?id=R-U7AAAAIAAJ&pg=PA130

When we go to the Codex Sinaiticus Project, we have:

Genesis, 23:19 - 24:20 library: NLR folio: Greek 259 and 2 = CSRU F1 and F5 scribe: D
http://codexsinaiticus.org/en/manus...olioNo=4&lid=en&quireNo=3&side=v&zoomSlider=0

Genesis, 24:23 - 24:46 library: NLR folio: Greek 259 and 2 = CSRU F1v and F5v scribe: D
http://codexsinaiticus.org/en/manus...olioNo=4&lid=en&quireNo=3&side=r&zoomSlider=0

Apparently the piece published in 1857 was the smaller piece at the bottom. And the Russians withheld the two fragments from the 1933 purchase.

Genesis 24 became a part of the Simonides controversy as well. (Sometimes we do not have all the details, see the Falconer Madan description of those events.) And it was claimed in response to Simonides that nothing had been preserved from Genesis.

"no part of Genesis has been recovered" - William Aldis Wright

This thread can be used to try to correlate the Genesis information.

Also, Uspensky had Genesis and Numbers material, from book repair that was published in 1867. We will try to unravel here which piece is which on the CSP.