The quest for Anchiton

[Anton]

Apparently, the corruption of the name began during the transmission of Jerome's text. You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. is a XII Century manuscript of Jerome's commentary. Here (f.160v) the word has become "amiaton" - an intermediate stage between "amianton" and "amiton". Those that appeared as corrections in earlier manuscripts ("ligni" for "lini", the addition of "quod") have now been incorporated into the main text.

There must have been several branches of distortion, since the 9th century Cod. Sang 266 has it "amiton" already. I wonder when and where it became "anchiton".