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The Rules Followed by the Editors of the Text Found in the Codex Vaticanus*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 February 2009

J. C. O'Neill
Affiliation:
Edinburgh, Scotland

Extract

All scribes followed rules in general. That would be what they learnt from their masters during their apprenticeship: how to sit and hold the pen; how to attend to the manuscript they were copying whether by eye or by ear; how long to write, when to break, and for how long; the height of the letters, the length of the line, the number of lines to a page. There must have been rules about spelling, rules like ‘Correct spelling mistakes’, or ‘Copy the spelling of the manuscript and do not attempt uniformity.’

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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1989

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