stichometryn.
/stɪˈkɒmɪtri/ Palaeography.
a. The measurement of a manuscript text by stichoi or lines of fixed or average length into which the text is divided. Also, a list or appendix stating this measurement.
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society > communication > writing > written text > layout > [noun] > measurement of text by lines of fixed length
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society > communication > book > kind of book > manuscript book > [noun] > measurement of manuscript text by lines
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society > leisure > the arts > literature > literary and textual criticism > textual criticism > [noun] > measurement of text
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1754 N. Lardner Credibility Gospel Hist.: Pt. II XI. 248 A Stichometrie is a Catalogue of books of sacred Scripture, to which is added the number of the verses, which each book contains. This Stichometrie [of Nicephorus] contains a Catalogue of the books of the Old and New Testament.
1855 B. F. Westcott Canon New Test. 522 (note) Credner has examined the Stichometry of Nicephorus in connexion with the Festal Letter of Athanasius.
1883 J. R. Harris in Schaff's Encycl. Relig. Knowl. III. 2245 The data of stichometry consist chiefly of subscriptions at the close of manuscripts, expressing the number of lines which are contained in the book..copied.
1884 D. Hunter tr. E. Reuss Hist. Canon ix. 159 The Codex Claromontanus..presents at the end of the text the copy of an old complete list of the books of the Old and New Testaments, with the number of lines in each book, what was then called a stichometry.
1885 G. Salmon Hist. Introd. N.T. xxv. 617 (note) It appears from the Claromontane stichometry, as well as from that of Nicephorus, that in length this Apocalypse was less than a quarter of that of St. John.
b. Occasionally used for: The practice of writing a prose text in lines of nearly equal length corresponding to divisions in the sense. Also, stichoi collectively.
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society > leisure > the arts > literature > prose > [noun] > writing of prose > writing in equal lines
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1875 W. R. Smith in Encycl. Brit. III. 645/2 Another system was to write the text in short lines (στιχοι) accommodated to the sense. The author of this stichometry was Euthalius of Alexandria in the second half of the 5th century, who applied it to the epistles and Acts.
1875 F. H. A. Scrivener 6 Lect. Text New Test. 69 Stichometry, that is, the division of prose sentences into lines of about equal length corresponding as nearly as possible to the sense.
1875 F. H. A. Scrivener 6 Lect. Text New Test. 71 Another manuscript in which the prose text..is broken up into stichometry.
1881 Scribner's Monthly Feb. 614 Stichometry was really nothing but a cumbrous substitute for punctuation.
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