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Quire numbers put on 300 years later?
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CPamph corrector quirks to study - and pass on to David Parker - "confined to the Leipzig portion" - quire numbers put on 300 years later?
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the quire numbers of the two numberings are always in agreement with one
The quires have two numbering schemes. In many quires, a number is visible on the top left comer of the first page.12 Milne and Skeat take this numbering to be the original numbering and assume that in many places it has been cut off during a rebinding of the manuscript. The second numbering, dated to roughly the eighth century,13 is placed in the top right corner of the first page of a quire and is visible on each quire. In the OT, the quire numbers of the two numberings are always in agreement with one another, but in the NT the older quire numbering is consistently one number higher than the more recent one. Milne and Skeat explain this discrepancy by assuming that a quire was planned between Job and Matthew, which was to contain the Eusebian canon tables, but was actually never fitted in.14 As the Eusebian apparatus is not complete in the Gospel of Luke, Milne and Skeat assume that the scribes did not insert the Eusebian tables at all: the project was simply abandoned. The suggestions that a simple mistake in the numbering was made or that a quire containing some OT apocryphon or the Eusebian canon tables had somehow been lost are rejected.
Though Milne and Skeat certainly paint a plausible scenario, the argument relating to the unfinished character of the apparatus in Luke has only limited force as the apparatus was inserted in John, which follows Luke. Patrick McGurk notes that in many Eastern Gospels and in some Latin Gospel books, the quire containing the introductory material was not numbered.15 If this practice was observed dunng the renumbering of the quires, it is even possible that a quire with the Eusebian tables was still present between Job and Matthew at the time of the renumbering and was lost much later. Whatever the case, the question of the missing quire that possibly never was will remain undecided unless new information comes to light.
the quire numbers of the two numberings are always in agreement with one
The quires have two numbering schemes. In many quires, a number is visible on the top left comer of the first page.12 Milne and Skeat take this numbering to be the original numbering and assume that in many places it has been cut off during a rebinding of the manuscript. The second numbering, dated to roughly the eighth century,13 is placed in the top right corner of the first page of a quire and is visible on each quire. In the OT, the quire numbers of the two numberings are always in agreement with one another, but in the NT the older quire numbering is consistently one number higher than the more recent one. Milne and Skeat explain this discrepancy by assuming that a quire was planned between Job and Matthew, which was to contain the Eusebian canon tables, but was actually never fitted in.14 As the Eusebian apparatus is not complete in the Gospel of Luke, Milne and Skeat assume that the scribes did not insert the Eusebian tables at all: the project was simply abandoned. The suggestions that a simple mistake in the numbering was made or that a quire containing some OT apocryphon or the Eusebian canon tables had somehow been lost are rejected.
Though Milne and Skeat certainly paint a plausible scenario, the argument relating to the unfinished character of the apparatus in Luke has only limited force as the apparatus was inserted in John, which follows Luke. Patrick McGurk notes that in many Eastern Gospels and in some Latin Gospel books, the quire containing the introductory material was not numbered.15 If this practice was observed dunng the renumbering of the quires, it is even possible that a quire with the Eusebian tables was still present between Job and Matthew at the time of the renumbering and was lost much later. Whatever the case, the question of the missing quire that possibly never was will remain undecided unless new information comes to light.
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