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that the Hexapla was used in editing the Bible text recorded in the Codex Sinaiticus. Origen’s table format was also influential on the development of Eusebius’s table format in his Chronicon.
Because so little physical evidence has survived from the transition from the papyrus roll to the codex during first four centuries CE, details that we have of Origen’s Hexapla and its relationship to Eusebius’s Chronicon and to the Codex Sinaiticus are significant markers for this critical early period in book history. Only a few small fragments of codices have survived from the third century, and nothing from that date confirms the tabular form of the Hexapla, or even that it was written in codex form. For confirmation of the layout of the codex page openings of the Hexapla we depend upon later evidence: two early manuscript fragments that survived. The first is a palimpsest from the Cairo Genizah in which the 8th century Greek text of a portion of the Psalms in the columnar form of the Hexapla was over- written in Hebrew. This leaf, preserved at Cambridge University, was first reproduced by Charles Taylor in Hebrew-Greek Cairo Genizah Palimpsests from the Taylor-Schechter Collection, Including a Fragment of the Twenty-Second Psalm According to Origen’s Hexapla (1900), plates 1 and 2. I discovered this publication detail when I acquired a copy of Taylor’s book in 2016. Prior to that I learned about the leaf in its reproduction on p. 97 of Grafton & Williams, Christianity and the Transformation of the Book: Origen, Eusebius, and the Library of Caesarea (2006). On p. 99 of the same work the authors reproduced a diagram showing the layout of the partial Hexapla leaf showing its actual linear and columnar ar- rangement in white and a hypothetical reconstruction of the original folio page opening in six columns in gray. The other fragment (coincidentally also of the Psalms), preserved in the Bibliotheca Ambrosiana in Milan, was written in Greek minuscule circa 900, and palimpsested with a thirteenth- or fourteenth-century Greek text.
The Eusebian canons or Eusebian sections, also known as Ammonian Sections, are thought to have been invented circa 280-340 CE; they are at- tributed to Bishop Eusebius of Caesarea, a Roman historian, exegete, and Christian polemicist. The canons became a standardized system dividing
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