Next, I needed to estimate the thickness of the average MS. Regardless, all our numbers are approximations, but we do need a ballpark figure to give us some sort of a benchmark. Many other researchers suggest the actual number to be about 5500, but I have reason to believe it’s higher than this. The actual number, I believe, is closer to 5800. Today, the official number is, at last count, 5999. Keep in mind that the folio count of those MSS that had been mislabeled were not listed in the 1994 K-Liste, although the official number of MSS was (which was higher than the actual number by a couple hundred or so). Of course, now we have the online K-Liste, and quite a few more MSS on the list, but the ’94 was the latest available at the time. Total number was something like 2.5 million pages. The average-sized MS was well over 400 pages long. Then, she doubled it to get the page count. Pati added up all the leaf counts of Greek NT MSS listed in the 1994 Kurzgefaßte Liste. When I was on sabbatical in Germany in 2002–03, I spent a few months in Tübingen (after several months in Münster). For Greek NT MSS, my wife did the addition. Ancillary to that, but helpful for estimating versional witnesses, is determining the average number of pages in the manuscripts. How did I come up with that number?įirst, I needed to figure out the total number of pages of all our Greek NT manuscripts. 4 & 1/2 Empire State Buildings stacked on top of each other. I have said in many lectures that it would be the equivalent of c. I was recently challenged on my numbers in a Facebook discussion in the group “New Testament Textual Criticism.” If you could stack up all handwritten manuscripts of the New Testament-Greek, Syriac, Latin, Coptic, all languages-how tall would the stack be?
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