Saint Paul’s Epistle to the Philippians begins on folio 122 verso of Greek New Finds M120.
Παῦλος καὶ Τιμόθεος δοῦλοι Ἰησοῦ Χριστοῦ πᾶσιν τοῖς ἁγίοις ἐν Χριστῷ Ἰησοῦ τοῖς οὖσιν ἐν Φιλίπποις σὺν ἐπισκόποις καὶ διακόνοις χάρις ὑμῖν καὶ εἰρήνη ἀπὸ θεοῦ πατρὸς ἡμῶν καὶ κυρίου Ἰησοῦ Χριστοῦ.
Paul and Timotheus, the servants of Jesus Christ, to all the saints in Christ Jesus which are at Philippi, with the bishops and deacons: Grace be unto you, and peace, from God our Father, and from the Lord Jesus Christ.
The epistle is set off by a simple border of alternating stems and lobes.
Dear Father Justin
I have a couple of questions about the 1975 New Finds.
Were binding and manuscript manufacturing tools and materials found among the New Finds?
Were the remains of storage baskets found in the New Finds area?
Yours sincerely
Ed
Among the New Finds were examples of early bindings and the tool decoration of leather covered boards, as well as woven storage baskets. We have an eighteenth century sewing frame, and forty finishing tools. These were not among the New Finds, but kept in storage rooms. Nikolas Sarris wrote a doctoral dissertation that is an encyclopedic survey of all the finishing tools evident in the bindings of the Sinai manuscripts. If you make an internet search for University of the Arts London Nikolas Sarris, you will be able to download electronic versions of all three volumes of his dissertation.