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  • From: MillerJimE AT aol.com
  • To: corpus-paul AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: [Corpus-Paul] Re: Stichoi in P46
  • Date: Mon, 1 Mar 2004 20:15:00 EST

<<If I am right, the difference between the stichoi and the actual line counts
(sometimes more, sometimes less) suggests that the scribe was not copying
from a single exemplar.  Instead, it indicates multiple exemplars, with
different page and/or text sizes, leading to wide variations of characters
per line, and hence the line count differences. >>
 
    Presumably these stichoi came from one manuscript which had them.  Why did the scribe choose to add them to his eclectic copy?  Was there a demonstrable tendency for some copyists to include every extra word or letter from this or that manuscript in order to have the most "complete" copy possible?  In other words, is P46 a rather long text with the additional words of various textual traditions all put in it together?
    If the copyist wasn't trying to get every possible extra from his source manuscripts, why would he add the stichoi?   To give the copy a professional veneer?
Jim Miller



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