Chapter Divisions, Capitula Lists, and the Old Latin Versions of John

Abstract

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The Text of The Gospel and Letters of John

“…Versional manuscripts display paratextual features also found in Greek tradition. The earliest evidence for the division of New Testament books into numbered chapters comes from north Africa in the middle of the third century, and no fewer than fifteen series of chapter titles for John are preserved in Latin (Houghton 2011). A set of eighty divisions is attested in Codex Vaticanus, matching certain section markings in P75 (Hill in Gurtner, Hernández & Foster 2015), but most Greek manuscripts from the fifth century onwards have a single set of kephalaia consisting of eighteen titles (titloi) for John.…”

The Latin New Testament

“…The Repertorium does not include cross-references to Stegmüller, but these are available in the online list at <www.vetuslatina.org/paratext> 45. Individual works on the paratext of the Latin Bible in the Bibliography include the other writings ofDe Bruyne, Regul 1969, Dahl 1978, Meyvaert 1995, Bogaert 1982, Houghton 2011, and Jongkind 2015Berger 1893 and1902 continue to supply useful information.…”

“…page 150 above.10 The texts of these are available at <www.vetuslatina.org/paratext>; see also Chapter 6 section j (pages 137-8). The dates given in this paragraph are extrapolated fromHoughton 2011.…”