Conventions in collations

Collations with lemmata unmarked and variants {thus}

• The text is that of Goldast's edition.
• {} enclose variants
  
• { . . . / . . . \ . . . }: /\ enclose variant within a variant
  
• [ ] enclose material added by editor or translator
  
• [[ ]] enclose editors' comments
  
• If a variant is from Ly, manuscript variants are usually not included unless they disagree with Ly
  
• Variants are of the word immediately preceding, or of the words between '{' and ':'
  
• om: omit(s)
  
• add: add(s)
  
• trs.: transpose(s) last two words of the text
  
• trs. 1432: transpose(s) last four words of text into the order first, fourth, third, second
  
• If a variant is shown for a MS, and also a transposition for the same MS, the transposition is of the variant (i.e. in reconstructing the readings of a manuscript, implement transpositions last).
  
• *: a variant tentatively accepted
  
• ?: MS difficult to read
  
• $ at the begining of a string of sigla indicates that the variant seems significant, '$%' that it seems more significant still.

Other collations

See example here.

"Tx" is the text adopted by the editors.
Words flanked
by "[d]. . . [/d]" are deleted in the manuscript;
by "[m]. . . [/m]" are inserted in the margin;
by "[b]. . . [/b]" are inserted between lines;
by "[q]. . . [/q]" are difficult to read;
by "[s]. . . [/s]" are drawn from a modern version of a quoted text;
by "[c]. . . [/c]" are a comment by the editor.
"[***]" or "[]", or simply the omission of words, means that a word or phrase is missing from the witness.

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