On 29 Mar 2007 at 17:01, Jimmy Doyle wrote:I doubt it. In the late Middle Ages manuscripts were basically mass produced. So, although these copies were not free of errors, counting them is really of little more significance for textual criticism than is counting the number of copies of a printed edition.
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before 1500 ce we reckon with some 6000 masoretic mss, 200 fragmentary^^^^
Ummmm, is this a typo? 6000 seems like an awful lot...
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