06_Biblica_1_D_Callan_Layout 1 05/11/12 12:20 Pagina 446 446 TERRANCE CALLAN Testament is now missing; so the codex does not contain Hebrews 9,15-end, 1 and 2 Timothy, Titus, Philemon and Revelation. How- ever, it may originally have included these writings. Readers of this copy of 2 Peter would have known from the codex that they were reading part of the Bible. 1. The Work of the Scribe The scribe who wrote 2 Peter in Codex Vaticanus was the best of the scribes who wrote the early copies of 2 Peter we are examining. The text of 2 Peter in Codex Vaticanus has remarkably few scribal errors. Most common are itacisms in which ei has been written in- stead of i; this occurs 11 times (in 1,1.4.17.20 [twice]; 2,6; 3,1.3.8 [twice].17). There is one case of misspelling where part of a word is omitted, namely esxa instead of esxata in 2,20. In 2,14 akatapastouj has been mistakenly written instead of akatapaustouj. In 2,18 mataioththj has been mistakenly written instead of mataiothtoj. In 3,5 sunestwshj has been mistakenly written instead of sunestwsa. A few errors have been corrected in the manuscript: 1. In 1,16 an e has been written above the line before the i in mega- liothtoj, making it megaleiothtoj. Likewise, in 2,1 an e has been written above the line before autoij, making it eautoij. 2. In 2,7 a t has been written above the q in lwq, making it lwt. In the same verse a r has been written above the line over erusato, making it errusato. 3. In 2,8 and 16 a g has been written above the first n in enktoikwn and elencin respectively, making them egkatoikwn and elegcin. 4. When the letters of the text were traced over at a later point in its history, the e in all of the itacisms mentioned above was not dark- ened. To this extent they were all corrected. The scribe of 2 Peter in Vaticanus is the one called B who wrote the entire New Testament. He also wrote part of the Old Testament; the rest was written by the scribe called A. Tischendorf suggested that scribe B of Vaticanus was the same as scribe D of Sinaiticus.