The Less-Expected Books in Codex Sinaiticus and Alexandrinus

6800 wordsThis paper offers an analysis of the physical aspect of the Apostolic Fathers at the end of Codex Sinaiticus and Alexandrinus. This will be focusing mainly on the scribal behaviour involved in the treatment of their texts. Building upon a previous analysis focused solely on the Shepherd of Hermas, these works and the manuscripts will be analysed here with respect to the quire structure, numbering and the general distribution of scribal tasks, the disposition of titles and colophons, the use of nomina sacra, and the various elements involved in paragraphing throughout the four works. Wherever possible, the significance of the finds will be assessed against the background formed by the other books written by the same hand in the same codex, and then against the larger context formed by the rest of the included booksstatus: publishe