The Seven Sages of Rome, Edited From the Manuscripts (Classic Reprint): With Introduction, Notes, and Glossary: With Introduction, Notes, and Glossary (Classic Reprint) - Tapa blanda

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In the editing of the text, the reading of the Cotton ms. Has been faithfully adhered to except in the following particulars: some twenty emendations of what appear to be scribal errors have been made marks of punctuation have been inserted, the lines have been numbered, and paragraphs have been indented; capitalization has been normalized according to modern standards 3 all abbreviations have been expanded the word division has been modernized; and information concerning the foliation of the manuscript and concerning the number and title of each story has been inclosed in brackets in the margins. Emendations are indicated in the body of the text by brackets, the reading of the manuscript being invariably given in the footnotes. Abbreviated letters or words are italicized. The variations from C exhibited by R, which are presented in the footnotes, have not been edited, but are given diplomatically except for the expansion of abbreviations.

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