Center for New Testament Restoration
Electronic Transcriptions

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Description

Electronic transcriptions of early witnesses and some modern critical texts adhering to the Manuscript Encoding Specification (MES).

Glyph Purpose                     UTF-8  Character Description
----- --------------------------- ------ ---------------------
  \   page break                  5C     backslash
  |   column break                7C     vertical bar
  /   line break                  2F     forward slash
  &   line remnant in lacuna      26     ampersand
  *   verse remnant in lacuna     2A     asterisk

  %   character damaged           25     percent sign
  ^   character missing           5E     circumflex accent

  ~   word supplied               7E     tilde 
  +   word supplied by vid        2B     plus sign
  
  =   nomina sacra                3D     equals sign 
  $   numeric abbreviation        24     dollar sign

  {   begin edited text           7B     left curly bracket 
  }   end edited text             7D     right curly bracket
  x   original scribe uncorrected 78     Latin small letter X
  a   second scribe correction    61     Latin small letter A 
  b   third scribe correction     62     Latin small letter B 

  [   begin questionable text     5B     left square bracket 
  ]   end questionable text       5D     right square bracket 
  +   verse present               2B     plus sign 
  -   verse absent                2D     hyphen-minus sign
  _   altered word division       5F     underscore 
  ⋄   alternate verse division    E28B84 white diamond

These transcriptions are generated directly from the CNTR and so any pull requests would not be directly applied. For more information on how these codes are applied, see the CNTR Technical Reference document.

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