Appendix: All Transcription Guidelines
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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)
Responsibility for this section
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Gabriel BodardCharlotte Tupman, Author
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