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Margins are an important method of organizing the written word, and have a long history. In ancient Egypt, writing was recorded on papyrus scrolls. [4] Egyptian papyrus scrolls could reach up to 30 metres in length, and contained text organized in columns laid out from left to right along the scroll. [5]
The discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls at Qumran, dating from c. 150 BCE – 75 CE, shows that in this period there was no uniform text. According to Menachem Cohen, the Dead Sea scrolls showed that "there was indeed a Hebrew text-type on which the Septuagint-translation was based and which differed substantially from the received MT."
The text is bordered by a top margin of 1.3 cm, bottom margin of 1.5 cm and an inter-column margin averaging 1.1 cm. There is clear evidence of vertical, but not horizontal ruling. Unidentified fragment 6, which is thought to derive from 4Q106 does show evidence of horizontal ruling, which would explain the extremely regular writing of this ...
Dead Sea Scrolls manuscript 7Q1 (also known as AT18, Åland AT18, 7QpapLXXExod, 7Q papLXXExodus, with TM 62295 and LDAB 3456 reference numbers) is an early fragmentary manuscript of the Greek Bible containing verses from the Book of Exodus 28:4–7, written on papyrus.
An upper margin of 1.9 cm is preserved and ruled guidelines as well as a ruled left margin are visible. Both Fragment 2 and Fragment 3 are attached to paper and on the card in Mus. Inv. 820 and is not movable
Likewise, in column no. three, the verse Lev. 24:10 is made a Closed Section in the MT, but in the paleo-Hebrew Leviticus Scroll the section break starts at the beginning of the right margin, preceded by a line where the previous verse ends close to the start of the line, and a solitary paleo-Hebrew letter waw is written in the middle of that ...
[21] [33] Apart from Nicholson's hyperbole—he is only known to have acquired six Torah scrolls compared to the 167 manuscripts acquired in 1884 by Adolph Sutro—Nicholson never wrote that he acquired the Shapira scroll itself. Crown's hypothesis was widely accepted as the best explanation of the scroll's fate.
Partial stichometry is the practice of including a series of numerals in the margins of a text, usually to mark every hundredth line. Stichometry was sometimes confused with colometry , the practice of some Christian authors in late antiquity of writing texts broken into rhetorical phrases to aid delivery.