 The text in the codex is written in two columns in uncial script , with between 49 and 51 lines per column and 20 to 25 letters per line . The beginning lines of each book are written in red ink and sections within the book are marked by a larger letter set into the margin . Words are written continuously in a large , round and well @-@ formed uncial hand . There are no accents and breathing marks , except a few added by a later hand . The punctuation was written by the first hand . The letters are larger than those of the Codex Vaticanus . There is no division of words , but some pauses are observed in places in which should be a dot between two words . The poetical books of the Old Testament are written stichometrically . The Old Testament quotations in the text of New Testament are marked on the margin by the sign 〉 . 
