"One Codex, Three Scribes, and Many Books: Struggles with Space in Codex Sinaiticus,".

By Dirk Jongkind, in New Testament Manuscripts: Their Texts and Their World, ed. Thomas J. Kraus and Tobias Nicklas, Texts and Editions for New Testament Study; vol. 2 (Leiden; Boston: Brill, 2006), 121-35.

If more than one scribe are working simultaneously on different part of the same manuscripts, how do they fit the pieces together? In Sinaiticus the scribes calculated how much space each scribe would need, so that the next part could be started. This calculation went sometimes wrong with the result that the scribes had to do all sorts of things to cover up their error.

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