an arrangement for supplying originals for a copying apparatus has a supply stack arranged above an illumination location of a copying apparatus , guiding members forming a transport path for guiding the original from the stack to the illumination location , a transporting device arranged to turn the original removed from the stack and supply the original to the illumination location , wherein the transporting device includes a rotatable transport cylinder connected with the transport path and having a peripheral portion with a turnable suction nozzle member with a plurality of suction nozzles forming the separating device , the stack has a stack - supporting surface with an end section forming a tangent with the periphery of the transport cylinder and having an opening extending from a contact point with the cylinder and to a front stack abutment , and a control device is provided and arranged to switch off the transport cylinder in a position in which the suction nozzle member is located in the region of the opening of the stack - supporting surface , to turn the suction nozzle member to the lower side of the stack , to activate a valve communicating the suction nozzles with a suction conduit of a suction source , to again switch on the transport cylinder , and to turn back the suction nozzle member on the periphery of the transport cylinder .