Woide and Scrivener After the Damage
Woide reportedly saw the trace in 1765 but not in 1785. Scrivener saw a faint remnant in 1861. Their testimony makes deterioration part of the textual evidence.
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Mill, Berriman, and the Vanishing Line
In 1707 John Mill changed his first judgment after closer inspection. In 1741 Henry Berriman used magnification and sunlight and reported part of the older stroke. These are…
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The earliest English collators treated Alexandrinus as reading θεός, but their evidence must be weighed honestly. Collational silence is not the same thing as a described inspection.
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