Here is another blog quiz (for earlier quizzes see: the conjectural emendation quiz, the geography quiz, a monastery quiz, a western text quiz, a NT majuscule manuscript quiz, a general manuscript quiz). This one is a little different, a little more difficult, some might even say down-right impossible. I'm not so sure (but I've got an answer key!). So, you have to identify the manuscript and the scribe.
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Number 7 looks like Codex Ephraemi Rescriptus. I'll venture a guess that it's the NT scribe.
ReplyDeleteNumber 6 looks like Codex Sinaiticus Scribe A.
ReplyDeleteAll I see is a student's wish list....
ReplyDeleteBut notice the apricot coloured ink...
ReplyDeleteIt is pretty obvious that these alphas are all from a first century fragment of a Gospel, most likely located in cave 4 of the Qumran Caves.
ReplyDeleteIs #2 from Codex 032?
ReplyDeleteWe never got the answers to this quiz. #8 looks like Sinaiticus, and #2 looks like 032
ReplyDelete#9 could almost be Codex Bezae.
ReplyDeleteJust for the record, here are the answers. Apologies for the ridiculousness of the quiz.
ReplyDelete1. Sinaiticus, Scribe D
2. Sinaiticus, Scribe A
3. Sinaiticus, Scribe B
4. Alexandrinus, Scribe III
5. Alexandrinus, Scribe IV
6. Alexandrinus, Scribe V
7. Codex Bezae
8. Vaticanus
9. Ephraimi Rescriptus
10. Washington
We clearly aren't palaeographers. At least we had the right set of Manuscripts;).
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