imperfections and worm holes

[Steven Avery]

Scribes Avoiding Imperfections in Their Writing Materials - worm holes - p. 377
Brice C. Jones
https://web.archive.org/web/2016120...om/uploads/1/8/3/4/18344243/apf-2016-0035.pdf

 

[Steven Avery]

Saint Catherine's !
https://codexsinaiticus.org/en/manu...lioNo=5&lid=en&quireNo=18&side=v&zoomSlider=0

In Codex Sinaiticus, these circular holes are often patched up with thin vellum shavings (e.g., Q411-f.3v), but this is rare in Codex Bezae.1'
maybe Q41
https://codexsinaiticus.org/en/manu...lioNo=3&lid=en&quireNo=41&side=v&zoomSlider=0

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12 Herbert J-M. Milne and Theodore C. Skeat, Scribes and Correctors of the Codex Sinaiticus (London, 1938), 71.

Milne & Skeat - p. 71
The occasional flaying-marks, i.e. accidental punctures in the skin, which develop into oval or circular holes in the process of manufacture, have as a rule been covered over with thin vellum shavings.