The UBS4 apparatus correctly listed “Avid” as a witness for the omission of John 7:53-8:11. Wieland Willker (2012 Textual Commentary) provides more detail: “'A has a lacuna from 6:50-8:52a. It is certain that A did not contain the PA. I have made a reconstruction of this from Robinson's Byzantine text with nomina sacra. It fits the space exactly without the PA (+ 1.5 lines) taking into account the following phenomenon: Some people noted that at the beginning of the first existing folio two extra lines in slightly smaller letters have been added and speculated about its implications for the contents of the lost folios. But there is a simple explanation: A* omitted Jo 8:52 due to homoioteleuton: εἰς τὸν αἰῶνα - εἰς τὸν αἰῶνα. A scribe added the missing verse in part at the bottom of the last missing page and in part on top of the first existing page. M. Robinson concurs with this view.”
Let's visualize: here are the pages of Codex Alexandrinus before and after the lacuna:
Fill the four absent pages with the John 6:50-8:52 without 7:53-8:11, with each page containing about the same as these two pages ( letters and letters), and you get what Willker described - there's no room for John 7:53-8:11 to fit or to come remotely close to fitting.
Putting the absent text into eight columns of 51 lines each and 20-25 letters per line, accounting for ekthesis and nomina sacra contraction, we something like this . . . .
"Vid" does not convey the clarity of this strongly enough. I propose that in the future when the findings of codicological analysis are so obvious, the apparatus should read "VID," not "vid." Codex Alexandrinus very obviously did not have John 7:53-8:11 in its text of the Gospel of John when it was pristine.
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