29-01-2016, 07:52 AM
Hi Crezac and welcome to the forums!
First off, it's a fallacy that there are no corrections to the mss. There are, but they take the form of amendments to glyphs rather than the more traditional striking out of words and writing in a new one.
Secondly you're right about the page numbers not being common. Indeed, they were only just coming in at the time the vellum was produced.
How woulda translation be impacted if this were a copy depends whether the scribe knew the original text. If he were copying blind, I dread to think of the errors.... And this is one theory, that it's a bad copy that destroyed the text.
First off, it's a fallacy that there are no corrections to the mss. There are, but they take the form of amendments to glyphs rather than the more traditional striking out of words and writing in a new one.
Secondly you're right about the page numbers not being common. Indeed, they were only just coming in at the time the vellum was produced.
How woulda translation be impacted if this were a copy depends whether the scribe knew the original text. If he were copying blind, I dread to think of the errors.... And this is one theory, that it's a bad copy that destroyed the text.