Style of Writing
213 manuscripts have 133 different styles of writing the marginalia:
bigger and less elegant than main text: 7175bigger than main text, m.sec.: 6981
black ink, fine line: 0238
by at least three hands: 3026
by at least two different hands, m.sec.: 4689
by at least two different hands; similar to main hand: 0303
by at least two hands: 0895
by main scribe and m.sec.; both similar to main text: 1247
by the scribe of the main text: 0360, 3031
by two or three different hands: 0359
clearly m.sec. (6 mss): 1209, 1226, 1233, 1517, 2468, 4716
clearly m.sec., by at least two hands: 5342
clearly m.sec., by at least two hands in different sizes: 4608
clearly m.sec., partly smaller than main text: 4353
clunky akṣaras, m.sec.: 6063
crossing out: 6123
darker ink, m.sec.: 6094
fine, pale, written with pencil: 6053
first and second hand, smaller than main text: 7277
like main text (17 mss): 1121, 6064, 6065, 6083, 6091, 6556, 6599, 6982, 6995, 7012, 7183, 7205, 7247, 7248, 7250, 7278, 7717
like main text, slightly smaller: 6090, 7192
m.sec. (11 mss): 0263, 0740, 0795, 1204, 1277, 1738, 5022, 5584, 6543, 6595, 7261
m.sec., by at least two hands: 2004
m.sec., fine line: 0128
m.sec., more sloppy: 1103
m.sec., pencil: 4239
m.sec., sloppy: 7176
m.sec., smaller, by two different hands: 0281, 0645
m.sec., upright, by two or even three hands: 6585
m.sec., upright, more sloppy than first hand: 6785
marginals sloppily written with fine ink: 3065
more sloppy, darker ink, m.sec., use of orpiment: 6093
more sloppy, smaller, m.sec.: 0357
much smaller than the script of the sūtra text and written with much finer line: 0900
my scribe of main text and m.sec.: 1954
neat like main text: 7010
neat like main text, except for 1v: 7180
neat, smaller than main text, by second hand: 7719
pale, m.sec.: 6505
pale, secondary: 6505
partly m.sec.: 1554, 1958
partly m.sec. and smaller, some like main text: 1106
same hand and size as main text; only longer parts are written with smaller akṣaras: 1004
same hand as main text: 7181
same hand as main text but smaller: 1376
same hand, slightly smaller: 7267
similar to main text (8 mss): 0307, 0454, 0462, 0659, 1232, 4271, 4982, 8159
similar to main text and presumably by the main scribe: 6066
similar to main text but m.sec.: 7190
similar to main text, but at least partly m.sec.: 1104
similar to main text, but m.sec.: 0378, 1732, 6538
similar to main text, but partly m.sec.: 0366
similar to main text, but smaller: 5008
similar to main text, by scribe of main text: 0938
similar to main text, slightly smaller: 0099, 1564, 1624
similar to main text, slightly smaller, likely by the scribe of the main text: 0889, 1024, 1626
similar to main text, smaller; frequent use of orpiment: 7285
similar to the main text: 7710
size and style like main text: 1725
slightly smaller: 0756
slightly smaller, similar to main text: 0131, 1448
small, fine line: 0594, 1549
small, rotated clockwise and anticlockwise to fit into the margins: 0656
small, with black ink, fine line: 0064
small, with fine line: 0706
smaller (7 mss): 0328, 0990, 0992, 5990, 6598, 7273, 7275
smaller and finer than main text: 7177
smaller than main text (5 mss): 0296, 0705, 0896, 7178, 7718
smaller than main text, fine line, upright and neat: 0814
smaller than main text, fine, m.sec.: 6604
smaller than main text, m.sec.: 6588, 7712
smaller than main text, m.sec., written with fine black line: 0306
smaller than main text, sometimes pale: 7268
smaller than main text, upright and neat: 0809
smaller than main text, upright, rotated clockwise and anticlockwise 90°: 0287
smaller than main text, use of deletion fluid: 6888
smaller than main text; first and second hand: 6795
smaller, a little more sloppy, m.sec.: 0239
smaller, fine: 6605
smaller, fine ink: 7274
smaller, fine ink, m.sec.: 6950
smaller, m.sec. (5 mss): 0048, 0299, 6135, 6796, 7711
smaller, m.sec., by at least two different hands: 0280
smaller, probably m.sec.: 6942
smaller, probably m.sec., by two different hands: 4214
smaller, rotated 90° anticlockwise; probably m.sec.: 1368
smaller, same black ink: 5932
smaller, same hand: 7276
smaller, similar to main text but m.sec.: 0284
smaller, two different hands: 0300
smaller, upright, by at least two hands: 0358
smaller, upright, neat, rotated 90°: 0389
smaller, upright, neat; interlinear insertions are still smaller: 1308
some of the same size, some smaller than main text: 7266
somewhat sloppy, by second and perhaps third hand: 6503
somewhat sloppy, perhaps by more than one scribe: 6502
style and size like main text: 2183
upright: 6962, 6984
upright, bigger akṣaras than those of the main text, clearly m.sec.: 8163
upright, by at least three hands: 0978
upright, by at least two hands: 1975
upright, like main text, slighly smaller: 5992
upright, m.sec. (5 mss): 1210, 6600, 6912, 6971, 7249
upright, m.sec., less neatly written: 0311
upright, neat, m.sec.: 1572
upright, pale ink, use of orpiment; two different hands descernable: 0122
upright, pale, by scribe of main text and m.sec.: 0373
upright, pale, m.sec.: 0325
upright, similar to main text: 0442, 1157
upright, similar to main text, but m.sec.: 0293, 0655
upright, similar to main text, but smaller, m.sec.: 5132
upright, similar to main text, by the scribe of the main text and m.sec.: 8118
upright, slightly smaller than main text, by first scribe and m.sec.: 6134
upright, small, fine line: 0603
upright, smaller and finer lines than main text, m.sec.: 0036
upright, smaller than main text (7 mss): 0244, 0267, 0330, 1920, 6922, 6952, 7271
upright, smaller than main text, cleary m.sec.: 8172
upright, smaller than main text, likely m.sec.: 4989
upright, smaller than main text, m.sec.: 0326, 7264
upright, smaller than main text, m.sec., by two or more hands: 5343
upright, smaller than main text, neat: 0727
upright, smaller than man text: 0457
upright, smaller, likely by main scribe with another pen: 0322
upright, smaller, m.sec.: 0335
upright, smaller, neat like main text, rotated 90° clockwise and anticlockwise: 5950
upright, smaller, pale: 0368
upright, smaller, very neatly written; at least two different hands: 0265
upright, written by the scribe of the main text and by another hand: 8119
upright; by two different hands: 0310
very small, by two differrent hands: 4296
very small, upright, neat: 0282, 0427
very small, upright, neat; one or two additional hands: 0338
written by the scribe of the main text and at least by one more scribe: 0052