The Hungarian Pray Manuscript Picture of the Resurrection of Jesus

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An ancient codex, known commonly as the Hungarian Pray Manuscript or Pray Codex, named for György Pray, a Jesuit scholar who studied the codex in that late 1700s. The codex, written about 1192 to 1195 AD, is preserved in the Budapest National Library.

The codex includes five hand drawings. One shows Jesus being placed on his burial shroud and then the discovery of the empty shroud. The artist seems to have drawn the very unusual herringbone weave of the cloth and several other graphic characteristics that match those of the shroud:

• Jesus is shown naked with his arms modestly folded at the wrists

• The fingers are unusually long in appearance as they are on the Shroud.

• There are no visible thumbs just as there are no visible thumbs in the images on the shroud.  Forensic pathologists say that makes sense. Nails driven through the wrist would force the thumbs to fold inward into the palms.

• There is also a clear mark on Jesus' forehead where the most prominent facial bloodstain is found on the forehead on the shroud

The most interesting feature in the drawing are four holes drawn on the cloth of the shroud. These match the so-called poker holes found on the shroud.

The Poker Holes