are there Ammonian sections in Sinaiticus? - or is it all updated to the Eusebian canons?

Steven Avery

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many references

but nothing Ammonian in Jongkind

Do the Eusebian sections totally co-opt and expand the Ammonian, with the same numbers?

Eusebian canons, Eusebian sections or Eusebian apparatus,[1] also known as Ammonian sections
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eusebian_Canons

The usefulness of these tables for the purpose of reference and comparison soon brought them into common use, and from the 5th century the Ammonian sections, with references to the Eusebian tables, were indicated in the margin of the manuscripts.

Catholic Encyclopedia
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Catholic_Encyclopedia_(1913)/Ammonian_Sections
.... the view has obtained among scholars that the work of Ammonius was restricted to what Eusebius states concerning it in his letter to Carpianus, namely, that he placed the parallel passages of the last three Gospels alongside the text of St. Matthew, and the sections hitherto credited to Ammonius are now ascribed to Eusebius (A.D. 265-340). At any rate the Harmony of Ammonius suggested to Eusebius, as he himself tells us (loc. cit.), the idea of drawing up ten tables (kanones) in which the sections in question were so classified as to show at a glance where each Gospel agreed with or differed from the others. In the first nine tables he placed in parallel columns the numbers of the sections common to the four, or three, or two, evangelists; namely: (1) Matt., Mark, Luke, John; (2) Matt., Mark, Luke; (3) Matt., Luke, John; (4) Matt., Mark, John; (5) Matt., Luke; (6) Matt., Mark; (7) Matt., John; (8) Luke, Mark; (9) Luke, John. In the tenth he noted successively the sections special to each evangelist. The usefulness of these tables for the purpose of reference and comparison soon brought them into common use, and from the fifth century the Ammonian sections, with references to the Eusebian tables, were indicated in the margin of the MSS.
 
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Steven Avery

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Matthew R. Crawford
https://www.academia.edu/5322996/An_Introduction_to_the_Ammonian_Sections_and_Eusebian_Canon_Tables

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