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Czar Alexander, who determined that the public of St. 

 Petersburgh should have an opportunity of enjoying a 

 view of the venerable manuscript. Accordingly it was 

 exhibited for a fortnight in the Imperial Library. The 

 emperor further directed, that immediate steps should be 

 taken for disseminating fac-similes of it throughout the 

 Christian world. 



Toward the close of December, Tischendorf carried the 

 manuscript from St. Petersburgh to Leipsic, in order to 

 have the types for his fac-simile founded, and to make 

 the necessary preparations for printing it, at the same 

 time he obtained from De La Rue of London, a paper 

 which De La Rue had lately invented, and which by a 

 chemical process bore a close resemblance to vellum. 

 "When all of his arrangements having received the appro- 

 val of the emperor, he commenced the work in earnest ; 

 but so carefully was the whole work executed, that it was 

 not until the end of October, 1861, that Dr. Tischendorf 

 could pronounce it complete, though he had made a great 

 effort to have it completed, in order that it might form an 

 interesting feature in the celebration of the Millenary of 

 the Russian empire, which occurred in September, 1861. 



Early in November, Dr. Tischendorf was admitted to 

 an interview with the czar and czarina, and formally pre- 

 sented to them the magnificent monument of their libe- 

 rality, and the fruit of his learned toils. 



The emperor ordered 300 copies of the fac-simile — 200 

 of these he reserved for the libraries of Europe, and to be 

 otherwise distributed as he might direct. The remaining 

 100 copies he presented to Dr. Tischendorf to dispose of 

 as he pleased. 



While this great fac-simile was in progress, Dr. Tisch- 

 endorf still kept in view the publication of a common- 

 typed edition of the New Testament portion of the manu- 

 script, which he designed should appear as an appendix 



