Hill—Irenaeus, the Scribes, and the Scriptures 125I have not observed any such use of marginal markings in Codex Washingtoniensis
or Codex Bezae.^50 I have not been able to obtain any images of Codex Ephraemi, the
fifth-century palimpsest written over in the twelfth century with the works of Ephraim
the Syrian. But Ulrich Schmidt, who has looked at photos of the manuscript, has
reported that the New Testament portion does contain marginal diplai marking the
Old Testament citations.^51
The quotation diplai resurface in at least two related, ninth-century, Greco-Latin
interlinear uncials, Codex Sangallensis (Δ) and Codex Boernerianus (GP), thought to
be companion volumes penned by Irish monks at Bobbio.^52 Sangallensis (Δ) contains
the four Gospels,^53 Boernerianus (GP) the Pauline corpus.^54
From a limited survey of photographic reproductions of later New Testament manu-
scripts, it would appear that the practice never became standard in the copying of New
Testament texts but was continued in some manuscripts throughout the textual tradition.^55
Illustration 6. Codex Alexandrinus, 82a, Acts 1:20 citing Psalm 69:26.^49Illustration 7. Codex Sangallensis, Matthew 1:23 citing Isaiah 7:14. Note the coloring-in of
the diplai.^56