Scribal Practices in Ben Sira Manuscript B: Codicological Reconstruction and Material Typology of Marginal Readings

This article first presents a material description of manuscript B and a reconstruction of the codex as a whole. Second, a typology of its marginal readings is offered. The aim is to gain insight into the process of marginal annotations. Finally, on the basis of a paleographical analysis, this article discusses the number of scribes responsible for the main text and the different marginal notes. The authors demonstrate that the main text of manuscript B is already the result of critical study and that it underwent different stages of annotation of the text and rearrangement of its structure by various scribes.