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Codex Ephraimi Rescriptus is a fifth-century Greek manuscript of the Bible, that is in tortured condition, including holes from "bookworms".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Codex_Ephraemi_Rescriptus

“The damage to books that is commonly attributed to ‘bookworms’ is, in truth, not caused by any species of worm. Often, the larvae of various types of insects including beetles, moths and cockroaches, which may bore or chew through books seeking food, are responsible.”

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bookworm_(insect)

The text has been bound and unbound more than once, "washed" at least twice for the crossed-purposes of both removing and enhancing its characters, written over by a later scribe with The 38 Treatises by Ephrem the Syrian, and it is difficult to discern the appropriate order of its leaves.

A numerically ordered (though not necessarily accurate) “Index” from the Codex Ephraimi Rescriptus is as follows:

https://i.imgur.com/UcJt1ta.jpg

What I have discovered - by interpreting the bookworm holes within it - is that for a considerable amount of time, some of its order was as presented here:

https://i.imgur.com/EMOn8eH.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/PMgr7zO.jpg

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