DESCRIPTION OF THE CODEX

The colour of the ink resembles that used by the A group, and the script that of B. It is not important, but cannot be much if at all later than the MS Abbreviation for Manuscript.. Specimens will be found in the third column of Plate II.

The following table may perhaps be useful as a summary of the results, with regard to the provenance The history of ownership or origin of an object., genesis, and history of the MS., which the foregoing discussion has rendered probable:—

4th Century. In a scriptorium A room in a monastery or library set aside for the copying of manuscripts. in Egypt.
Scribe A wrote the New Testament including the Subscriptions The concluding notes at the end of a book., Scribe B wrote Hermas, Scribe E added the Eusebian Apparatus A system of cross-referencing the four Gospels developed by Eusebius of Caesarea., and Scribe S added the line counts original: στίχοι (stichoi); used to measure the length of a text for payment or reference. to the Epistles. Scribe D (acting as corrector A² and perhaps A¹) added the superscriptions, and probably the ‘titles’ original: tituli. in Acts. He also wrote cancel-leaves Replacement pages inserted to correct major errors in the original sheet. for eight folia Leaves or pages of a manuscript., and (using

a smaller and different type of hand when necessary) acted as Lead Editor original: Diorthotes; a specialized scribe who proofread and corrected the work of others against a master copy. of the whole. He omitted to do the work of scribes E and S on the cancel-leaves. The rest of the ‘A’ group of correctors probably also belong to this period and place, but this is uncertain.

4th-5th Century. In a locality which is unknown.
Scribes B, B*, and A-oblique, and possibly some of the doubtful members of the A group, worked on the MS., whether in the same or another scriptorium cannot be ascertained.

5th-7th Century. In the monastery at Caesarea.
The MS. was corrected by the group of C correctors, Cᵃ Cᵇ Cᶜ Cᶜ* Cᴾᵃᵐᵖʰ, and possibly others.

8th-12th Century. Possibly on Mt. Sinai.
At least two correctors, D and E, made unimportant and fortunately few corrections.