Note 59 — Chapter II · MATERIALS OF THE TEXTUAL CRITICISM OF THE NEW TESTAMENT.
William Edie translation
On Constantine’s Bibles, see Westcott, Canon, c. ii. p. 426; Bible in the Church, c. vi. p. 155 ff.; Zahn, Geschichte des N. T. Kanons, i. 64. Zahn combats the supposition that the entire Bible was contained in each Codex, pointing out quite rightly that in that case the latter could not have been εὐμετακόμιστα, and moreover that Constantine speaks of σωμάτια, which does not mean codices but something much more indefinite. Nor does he believe that Eusebius intended to specify the number of sheets in each quire of the Codex or of the columns in which it was written. “The fifty Bibles might and would be distributed in 200 to 400 volumes.” According to the view taken above there would be from 150 to 200 of these. Cf. Scrivener, i. p. 118, n. 2.