Overview of Text Articulation and Numeration in Codex Vaticanus

Abstract

Understanding that the CapVat numbers belonged to the original production of the book enables us to consider them within the scope of the other scribal features of that production, particularly with regard to the other features of textual articulation. Each scribe’s approach(es) to textual division and numbered capitulation for each book, or subcorpus, in the codex is now outlined, marking how these approaches evolved, particularly for Scribe B, as the manufacture of the codex progressed. In this way, we can see that the numbers were not ‘imposed upon’ an otherwise integrated system of divisions and subdivisions. In many books, the interaction of numbers and other divisions strongly suggest that the exemplar used for the numeration is the same one being used for the text. A summary of the findings of this chapter is provided at the end.