Bibliotheca Arnamagnæana - 01.06.2003, Page 93
Editorial procedure
The text of the Kiel manuscript is printed quasi-diplomatically, the or-
thography of the original only having been modified with respect to the
use of Capital letters; these are consistently applied to nomina propria,
including the various terms referring to the Deity. All punctuation oc-
curring in the manuscript has been reproduced, including marks that in-
terrupt the grammatical sense. Such marks, if not merely pen-rests, seem
as far as the prose passages are concerned to be intended as aids to ef-
fective declamation, and all of them, irrespective of function, are printed
in round brackets. The modem comma is substituted for the scribe’s in-
verted semi-colon (punctus elevatus). The following mies have been
adopted for the treatment of abbreviations:
(1) Contractions and special signs of abbreviation that are not suspensions
(whether written on, above, or below the line, and including all Roman nume-
rals) are silently expanded.
(2) Suspensions, defined as any instance in which only the initial letter or letters
of a word have been written down, with a diagonal stroke through the letter(s), a
horizontal mark above, or a point to the right indicating that the remainder of the
word has to be supplied, are extended between round brackets.
(3) In both cases the orthography of the manuscript has been applied, even when
it may seem idiosyncratic: note the expansion Cristus, etc. (so always written
out in full, e.g. 11 Cristi) for the scribe’s chi-rho symbol.
The text has been editorially divided into numbered paragraphs with a
view to clarifying the liturgical pattem of the Office and Mass. Indenta-
tion, italics, and bold-face type have been introduced for the same pur-
pose. Angle brackets enclose (1) letters or words omitted by scribal error
and (2) all punctuation marks not in the manuscript, whether omitted by
scribal error or supplied by me to clarify the sentence structure. Other
emendations are preceded by an asterisk. A double vertical line indicates