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an overview of looking at missing text, with and without corrections
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The information that would be helpful, especially for the New Testament, but even for one book, or one section, like the Pauline Epistles.
How many large sections have corrections, and which original scribe and which corrector(s) are involved?
The scribes can be worked with two hypotheses, one that has corrections over hundreds of years, or even 1500 years, a second that has corrections over about a 20-year period in the mid-1800s.
Vaticanus and the Birch collation and manuscripts In Athos are all of special interest, as potential original and correction exemplars.
Claromontanus and it’s sisters 0319 and 0320, also HPaul (015), and the Zurich Psalter in the OT, all have special relationships to Sinaiticus. The textual discoveries for each be explained separately, and there may be others, like the Andreas Revelation text.
The large omissions with corrections are easy to find on the manuscript, we saw about
24 in John,
6 in Romans,
3 in Revelation (will check if that was complete).
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The original omission text could be:
a) haplography - homoeoteleuton and homoioarcton
b) other scribal fatigue or inattention
a&b - (The total number of letters missed may help determine exemplar line lengths, and the specific lengths may match specific potential exemplars, like Claromontanus or 0319. When there is a type of match, it would be good to look at shared unusual orthography, nearby text, etc.)
c) copying an exemplar (then using another fuller exemplar for the correction)
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Beyond the omissions with corrections, we ask:
What are the large sections that are missing text that is in many Greek manuscripts that remain uncorrected?
A related question.
The information that would be helpful, especially for the New Testament, but even for one book, or one section, like the Pauline Epistles.
How many large sections have corrections, and which original scribe and which corrector(s) are involved?
The scribes can be worked with two hypotheses, one that has corrections over hundreds of years, or even 1500 years, a second that has corrections over about a 20-year period in the mid-1800s.
Vaticanus and the Birch collation and manuscripts In Athos are all of special interest, as potential original and correction exemplars.
Claromontanus and it’s sisters 0319 and 0320, also HPaul (015), and the Zurich Psalter in the OT, all have special relationships to Sinaiticus. The textual discoveries for each be explained separately, and there may be others, like the Andreas Revelation text.
The large omissions with corrections are easy to find on the manuscript, we saw about
24 in John,
6 in Romans,
3 in Revelation (will check if that was complete).
=====
The original omission text could be:
a) haplography - homoeoteleuton and homoioarcton
b) other scribal fatigue or inattention
a&b - (The total number of letters missed may help determine exemplar line lengths, and the specific lengths may match specific potential exemplars, like Claromontanus or 0319. When there is a type of match, it would be good to look at shared unusual orthography, nearby text, etc.)
c) copying an exemplar (then using another fuller exemplar for the correction)
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Beyond the omissions with corrections, we ask:
What are the large sections that are missing text that is in many Greek manuscripts that remain uncorrected?
A related question.