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    Stichometry is the practice of counting lines in texts: Ancient Greeks and Romans measured the length of their books in lines, just as modern books are...
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  • The Stichometry of Nicephorus is a stichometry attributed to Patriarch Nicephorus I of Constantinople (c. 758-828). The work appears at the end of the...
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    third-century list in the sixth-century Codex Claromontanus and in the later Stichometry of Nicephorus appended to the ninth-century Chronography of Nikephoros...
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    'partial stichometry' (in contrast to the total stichometry studied by Graux). Fifty years later, Ohly's definitive monograph on stichometry built on...
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    and the apocrypha. Next to each book is the count of its lines, his Stichometry of Nicephorus, to which we can compare our accepted texts and judge how...
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  • 66.4 (1973): 479-486; Michael E. Stone, "Armenian Canon Lists II—The Stichometry of Anania of Shirak (c. 615-c. 690 CE.)." Harvard Theological Review...
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    include: De laude martyrii (On the Glory of Martyrdom), mentioned in a stichometry of a Cyprianic manuscript from 365 De rebaptismate (On Rebaptism) De...
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  • manuscript are due to different identifications with lost texts. The Stichometry of Nicephorus and some other ancient lists refer to both a Testament...
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    to participants in the Council is unknown. The Stichometry of Nicephorus, a ninth century stichometry, gives the length of an Acts of John text as 2,500...
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    canonical and apocryphal works drawn up in the 9th century, known as the Stichometry of Nicephorus, the gospel was 2,200 lines, just 300 lines shorter than...
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  • excerpts of the book of Enoch in his Chronography. In the 9th century Stichometry of Nicephorus, Enoch is relegated (along with ten other texts) to a list...
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    avoid copyists cheating buyers by passing off shorter versions. Cf. Stichometry of Nicephorus. He refers to copies by famous calligraphers, to bibliophiles...
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    shorter, while the Ethiopic matches the claimed line count from the Stichometry of Nicephorus; patristic references and quotes seem to match the Ethiopic...
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    study of ancient stichometry during the golden age of papyrology and led to Ohly’s definitive monograph fifty years later. Stichometry now plays a small...
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  • Constantinople, Byzantine writer and patriarch, 758–828, author of the Stichometry and other works Nicephorus II of Constantinople, patriarch in exile at...
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    so-called Western text of the New Testament (1893) Memoranda sacra (1893) Stichometry (London 1893). Four lectures on the western text of the New Testament...
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    Vaticanum. Lipsiae: Giesecke & Devrient. p. XXI. Harris, James Rendel. Stichometry. London: C. J. Clay and Sons. p. 73. C. R. Gregory, "Canon and Text of...
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    the Borgia Tabula is a list of titles and authors of epic works, with stichometry, a listing of the number of lines in each epic; though these have occasioned...
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  • pentastich, polystichia, polystichous, stich, stichic, stichomancy, stichometry, stichomythia, telestich stich- tunic Greek στίχη (stíkhē), στιχάριον...
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  • Apocalypse of Zephaniah was known from ancient texts (for example the Stichometry of Nicephorus) but it was considered lost. In 1881 two fragmentary manuscripts...
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  • statistical studies, which can be found under the header colometry and stichometry. In QL, the concept of law is understood as the class of law hypotheses...
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  • order to simplify reading), as opposed to stichography (occasionally "stichometry"), a layout using a new line to start each verse. During the text analysis...
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    subscriptions at the end of the Gospel of Luke (only in Luke), with numbers of [[Stichometry|στιχοι]] (in Luke), and portraits of the Evangelists before each Gospel...
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  • liturgical use), subscriptions at the end of each Gospel, numbers of [[Stichometry|στιχοι]], and scholia. The manuscript is elegantly and correctly written...
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  • pentastich, polystichia, polystichous, stich, stichic, stichomancy, stichometry, stichomythia, telestich stich- tunic Greek στίχη (stíkhē), στιχάριον...
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    very damaged. The manuscript begins with gospel, then comes Euthale's stichometry (87r-95v) and the epistles of Paul (96r-164v), the last is the Acts of...
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    title itself Prayer of Joseph is found in many ancient documents. The Stichometry of Nicephorus shows that the Prayer of Joseph had a length of eleven...
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  • the List of the Sixty Books, the Synopsis of Pseudo-Athanasius, the Stichometry of Nicephorus, and the Armenian list of Mechithar establishing it firmly...
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  • has saved many rare variants. He is likewise of importance in Biblical stichometry. His "Capitula" and commentaries show the early Christian division into...
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    are written in gold. The writing is continuous in full lines without stichometry. Quotations from the Old Testament are marked with an inverted comma...
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