9/21: noticing

...some evidence for verbal dictation in the manuscript of the Codex Amiatinus, "mistakes" and departures from the text that could be best accounted for if someone was trying to copy what they heard rather than what they saw.  Who knows at what stage of manuscript transmission it happened--it could be that the Codex Amiatinus is copying those "mistakes" rather than making them for the first time--but it's still cool to see in action, and even though the action was centuries ago!