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Show «. 6 - On their return in 1914, tee war had broken oat, and the nllltary authorities stationed at th© Suee Canal confiscated all the negatives m&~'Mm£zm$^>%km^ ffeus te© story of the Piraan Golleetion was unhappily closed in this oaaner* During'1940, I visited th© Monastery and found about a hundred scrolls set ©side in a. special chest of drawers. Host of that* were dated in modern ink, IIHliTiimiiTj by tee two German scholars, and we must assus* that this Is th© set they knew and photographed. On further inquiry into this aatter? I was fortunate in finding two aor© chests fall of other scrolls where Archie docaseote wore singled wite Turkish feraans in heaps. % eetfatfe then ros® to 500 scrolls, and I hastened te bring tee cutter to the^omolal sttteorities in te© bop© teat sosetliiBg sight b© done te photograph or copy this material for publication, fhough quite • eyapateotie wite the project, none could do much in the- circumstances of thoi Great World Har, iO^sS^ -and the project was postponed for better tSass* Finally better tlsn* ease with th© Ht, Sinai &jp©ditl©n. So here ley ay chance, H i Expedition was at first launched with an eye on te© Greek sieife- S M I I put tills now field before the Library •iiltlllliftltilj and, thanks indeed to their foresight ami appreciation, the Arable notorial was Included in tee project, and te© Firmans were microfilmed as a collection.. While workinii at th© Monastery., however, tee number of scrolls kept mounting up by leaps and bounds, Apart froa the saterial already handled by larl Scheldt and Berahard Morita, Father Joachim the Librarian brought Ml two •new chests stacked with documents where Arabic and furkish scrolls were dumped t^JL^. in a great big aedloy. But this was not the end, I went on discovering fresh lots unknown te and unseen by scholars in untold and untrodden parts of th© Library and of the Monastery, For Instance, 1 found a whole heap wrapped up |
