Sinaiticus scribal quirks noted after the 1862 Bibliorum codex Sinaiticus Petropolitanus

[Steven Avery]

One of the Journal of Sacred Literature reviews mentions elements that should be compared to the common science given by Tischendorf and Skeat-Milne unto Jongkind.

The review is 16 pages, there may be a smidgen of overlap with Scrivener. (It is likely written by the editor Benjamin Harris Cowper, 1822-1904.)

Here is an example of one of the notes to check against other sources, and if they are not handled clearly, it could be an important part of Sinaiticus science.

Journal of Sacred Literature (1863)
https://books.google.com/books?id=gnstAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA11

At the end of certain books, more especially the Pauline Epistles, we find the number of versicles or stichae set down. The numerals employed are the ordinary Greek letters as far as we have observed, except for 90 and 200. The 90 is a purely Coptic letter, and numeral of the same value. The sign of 200 we have failed to identify. As for the 90 it is similarly represented in A, D, and perhaps elsewhere.

End of books

Romans
http://www.codexsinaiticus.org/en/manuscript.aspx?book=38&lid=en&side=r&zoomSlider=0

1 Corinthians
http://www.codexsinaiticus.org/en/manuscript.aspx?book=39&lid=en&side=r&zoomSlider=0

for each succeeding book the book= number can be incremented up 1

The end of 2 Corinthians shows such a number in the transcription, not visible on the pic
http://www.codexsinaiticus.org/en/manuscript.aspx?book=40&lid=en&side=r&zoomSlider=0

For the review of our linguistic dept
tiny print for book names
erasures or virtually invisible after the book names
placed in the transcription
a coptic 90, per Cowper
an unknown 200
and.. what are the numbers?

Books 40 end of 2Corinthians (substitute the number in the url) are good examples of really curious ones,
The ink is so tiny, that it is 1/4 size.

Although I have no idea which books are supposed to have the coptic 90.

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Looking at Volume 1, Cowper on p. 14 of the JSL mentions the stichoe of the 21 lithographed plates:
#11 - "the number of stichoe in Gal" (Gal 5:20 to Eph 1:9) http://www.codexsinaiticus.org/en/manuscript.aspx?book=41&lid=en&side=r&zoomSlider=0
προϲ γαλαταϲ - Galatians
ϲτιχ τιβ Stich 312 (modern verses is 149)
yes, this can be seen - Greek number converter http://www.russellcottrell.com/greek/utilities/greeknumberconverter.htm

#12 - Heb 12:27-13:25 - "number of stichoe" -- 550
http://www.codexsinaiticus.org/en/m...lioNo=1&lid=en&quireNo=86&side=r&zoomSlider=0

Sidenote . plate #17 is 1 Tim 3:16, where he may have fudged the info