Appendix: All Transcription Guidelines

Structure

• Columns, fragments, sections, pages and other breaks
• Lines and line breaks
• Word divided across lines
• Direction of text
• Verse lines
• Metrical fragment
• Non-structural text parts
• Paragraphos, horizontal rule, etc.

Transcription

• Clear text
• Uninterpreted characters (Leiden uppercase)
• Ambiguous characters (Leiden underdot)
• Ambiguous characters with alternatives offered
• Erased but legible text
• Erased and illegible but restored
• Erased and lost
• Marked for deletion by slashes etc.
• Text struck over erasure
• Ancient correction, both original and new text read
• Ancient correction, original illegible or lost
• Text added by ancient hand
• Text added with sling etc.
• Illegible characters, quantity known
• Illegible characters, quantity unknown
• Illegible characters, quantity approximate
• Illegible lines, quantity known
• Illegible lines, quantity unknown
• Illegible lines, quantity approximate
• Possible illegible lines
• Illegible text, other units
• Lost characters, quantity known
• Lost characters, quantity unknown
• Lost characters, quantity approximate
• Lost praenomen or number (length extrapolated)
• Lost characters, metre reconstructed
• Lost lines, quantity known
• Lost lines, quantity unknown
• Lost lines, quantity approximate
• Lines possibly lost / text possibly breaks
• Lacuna, other units
• Vacat, measured in characters (horizontal space)
• Vacat, measured in lines (vertical space)
• Vacat, measured in other units
• Possible vacat
• Change in scribe or hand
• Text not completed (omission not restored)

Form and appearance

• Characters highlighted or set apart in some way
• Apices and other ancient diacritics
• Supralinear lines, etc.
• Raised or lowered characters
• Tall or small characters
• Reversed or inverted letters
• Claudian letters
• Ligatures
• Symbols
• Symbols: Chi-rho
• Symbols: monograms

Editorial interventions

• Restored text
• Uncertainly restored text
• Incompletely restored text
• Text visible to previous editor
• Text restored from parallel copy
• Superfluous characters
• Supplement of omitted characters
• Correction of erroneous characters
• Regularization of dialect or late spellings, etc.
• Correction (without specifying if omitted or erroneous)
• Abbreviation fully expanded
• Abbreviation uncertainly expanded
• Abbreviation partially expanded
• Abbreviation not expanded at all
• Expansion of abbreviation including mark
• Expansion of symbol to word
• Words omitted by editor
• Foreign text omitted from edition
• Editor makes "subaudible" word manifest
• Editor's explanation of breviatio
• Editor's note

Interpretation

• Numeral, value known
• Numeral, value unknown
• Fraction, value known
• Fraction, value unknown
• Numeral with tick
• Numeral with range of possible values
• Numeral with non-sequential possible values
• Acrophonic and other numbers
• Quotation marks
• Text in a language other than that of the main text

Responsibility for this section

1. Gabriel BodardCharlotte Tupman, Author