In this second part of the book, we turn from an analysis of the codex and the hands that wrote in it, to examine the details of the way in which the scribe copied down the texts he had received. The purpose is twofold: to find out about the forms in which he received them, and to discover his ways in preserving them. We are not going to be examining variant readings, but are pursuing further the questions of lay-out with which we were concerned in Part I, and combining with them study of the presentation and the orthography. The three main subjects are the division of the text into sense-lines, the forms of the nomina sacra, and the spelling. Variations in the last two of these have long been known; the examination of the punctuation will help us to interpret the evidence more accurately. We shall be able to find out much about the Vorlagen of D, and about how the scribe departed from them.