I've been pressing on with collating the punctuation in P66 this week, and now that I've noted 520 punctuation marks in 88 pages of the manuscript, it's getting fairly tedious. Still, music streamed from Spotify helps - Eric Clapton, Elgar's cello concertos, U2, Joe Jackson, Rachmaninov, Sixpence none-the-Richer, Snow Patrol, Debussy and so on and on and on... And it's free and without limit! Marvellous!
Having found all these punctuation marks, I don't want to read or hear anyone else trotting out that old myth that the Greek Manuscripts had no punctuation!
Though the marks are inconsistent, over 95% make sense, and include midpoints, chevrons (>), apostrophes and colons. Rather than indenting a new paragraph as we sometimes do, the scribe outdented new paragraphs. But none of that is really interesting, it will need some statistical and linguistic analysis to see if there's anything of sugnificance.
I was only telling a pal about spotify this morning - it is good isn't it. So you're doing Ancient & Modern are you; sounds like a cue for a hymn!
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