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  • 4 - Notes Made by Monks: The Marginal Markings in Codex I and Codex VIII

  • Paul Linjamaa, Lunds Universitet, Sweden
  • Book:
    The Nag Hammadi Codices and their Ancient Readers
    Published online:
    04 January 2024
    Print publication:
    11 January 2024, pp 85-119
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    This chapter analyses the use of the diplai (>), diple obelismene (>––) and corone signs (/︦ ) that appear in the margins of Codex I and VIII. These scribal markings have not received scholarly attention before but hold important clues as to how the texts were actually read. After demonstrating that the markings cannot be simple paragraph indicators, the chapter goes on to break down the passages marked out with diplai and corone signs and argues that they were used by one/several readers to highlight particular passages of interest. The subjects discussed in these highlighted passages are all mentioned in the Letter of Ammon, written by an Egyptian bishop to one of his bishop colleagues describing the time he spent in a Pachomian monastery. The letter is dated from the time the Nag Hammadi codices were produced, and it is argued that these features support a monastic reading of the texts.