Palaeography Policy

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Policy issues



Abbreviation


  • Representation of abbreviations, especially use of lines over single letters, parts of words, or whole words




Capitalisation


  • Standardize capitalisation for persons and places?


ISSUE: Capital/non-capital distinction hard to determine by non-expert palaeographer



Crossing out


  • Should crossed out or blotted out letters or words be indicated in transcription?


Dashes


  • Distinguish length and type of dashes used in manuscript?


ISSUE: Distinguishing space filling dashes from dashes used as hyphens or to show run over between manuscript lines?



Dots


  • Reproduction of dots, especially preceeding and following greek/arabic or roman numbers?


Page layout


  • How to indicate page layout, especially position of headers, signatures, and marginalia?


Paragraphs


  • Determining start and end of paragraphs in legal documents?


Punctuation


  • Recognition of, and reproduction of, mid-C17th punctuation, especially commas, semi-colons, colons, and double dashes ("=")?

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