A Manual of Manuscript Transcription for the Dictionary of the Old Spanish Language by David Mackenzie Fifth Edition Revised and Expanded by Ray Harris-Northall Madison, 1997 Advisory Board of the Hispanic Seminar of Medieval Studies, Ltd. Manuel Alvar Samuel Armistead Jerry Craddock Alan D. Deyermond Charles Faulhaber Regina of Geijerstam Paul Lloyd Ian Macpherson Harvey Shaffer Juan Temprano Copyright © 1997 by The Hispanic Seminary of Medieval Studies, Ltd. Spanish Series No. 116 ISBN 1-56954-067-5 v Table of Contents Preface .................................................................................................................................................................. vi Introduction ....................................................................................................................................................... viii A. NORMS OF TRANSCRIPTION 0. IDENTIFICATION ........................................................................................................................................ 1 1. FOLIATION ................................................................................................................................................. 2 2. HEADING ................................................................................................................................................... 3 3. COLUMN BOUNDARIES ............................................................................................................................. 5 3.21 Character Set ................................................................................................................................... 7 3.211 Alphabet ............................................................................................................................. 7 3.212 Numerals ............................................................................................................................ 8 3.213 Special Characters .............................................................................................................. 8 3.214 Punctuation ...................................................................................................................... 10 3.215 Diacritics ........................................................................................................................... 12 3.215a The Apostrophe ................................................................................................... 12 3.215b The Tilde .............................................................................................................. 12 3.215c Orthographic Accent Marks ............................................................................... 13 3.22 Basic Editorial Operations .......................................................................................................... 14 3.221 Word Separation .............................................................................................................. 14 3.221a Regular word separation ..................................................................................... 15 1) Function form plus function form .............................................................. 16 2) Function form plus lexical item ................................................................... 16 3) Lexical item plus function form ................................................................... 18 4) Lexical item plus lexical item ........................................................................ 18 5) Prefix plus root .............................................................................................. 18 3.221b Irregular word separation ................................................................................... 19 3.221c Incomplete words at the end of a line ............................................................... 20 3.221d Other instances .................................................................................................... 21 1) Word division at the end of a column ......................................................... 21 2) Word division related to %2 and %3 .......................................................... 21 3) Word division before any mnemonic ............................................................. 21 4) Word division before a closing brace .......................................................... 21 5) Note about the hyphen ................................................................................. 21 3.222 Scribal Abbreviation and Expansion ............................................................................. 21 3.223 Deletions: Scribal and Editorial ...................................................................................... 24 3.224 Insertions: Scribal and Editorial ..................................................................................... 25 3.224a Scribally Inserted Emendations ......................................................................... 26 3.224b Glosses ................................................................................................................. 28 3.224c Addenda ............................................................................................................... 28 3.224d Editorially Inserted Emendations ...................................................................... 28 3.224e Insertions Which Cross Column or Folio Side Boundaries ............................ 29 3.225 Deletion-Insertion Combinations .................................................................................. 29 3.226 Illegibility .......................................................................................................................... 30 3.226a Defacement, Effacement, and Mutilation ......................................................... 30 3.226b Reconstruction of illegible text by editor ......................................................... 31 3.226c Reconstruction of illegible text by later hand ................................................... 32 vi 3.23 Further Mnemonics ..................................................................................................................... 32 3.231 Rubrics .............................................................................................................................. 33 3.232 Initials ................................................................................................................................ 34 3.233 Illumination ...................................................................................................................... 36 3.234 Miniature ........................................................................................................................... 36 3.235 Diagram ............................................................................................................................ 37 3.236 Language Mnemonics ...................................................................................................... 38 3.237 Symbol .............................................................................................................................. 39 3.238 Blank ................................................................................................................................. 40 3.239 Marginal Insertions .......................................................................................................... 42 3.239a Gloss ..................................................................................................................... 42 3.239b Addendum ........................................................................................................... 43 4. CATCHWORD ............................................................................................................................................ 45 5. REMARK FIELDS AND {RMK:} MNEMONIC ......................................................................................... 46 Index ................................................................................................................................................................... 47 vii LIST OF PLATES 1. Picatrix (Rome: Vaticana, Reg. lat. 1283) 7r 2. Picatrix (Rome: Vaticana, Reg. lat. 1283) 26v 3. Libros del saber de astronomía (Madrid: Universitaria, 156) 188v 4. Libros del saber de astronomía (Madrid: Universitaria, 156) 189r 5. Libros del saber de astronomía (Madrid: Universitaria, 156) 185r 6. General estoria I (Madrid: Nacional, 816) 108v 7. General estoria I (Madrid: Nacional, 816) 109r 8. Libro del Isopete historiado (Escorial: Monasterio, 32-I-13) 39r 9. Picatrix (Rome: Vaticana, Reg. lat. 1283) 27v 10. Picatrix (Rome: Vaticana, Reg. lat. 1283) 29r 11. Libros del saber de astronomía (Madrid: Universitaria, 156) 19r 12. Picatrix (Rome: Vaticana, Reg. lat. 1283) 19r 13. Crónica de los conqueridores II (Madrid: Nacional, 10134bis) 4r 14. Crónica de los conqueridores II (Madrid: Nacional, 10134bis) 4v 15. Picatrix (Rome: Vaticana, Reg. lat. 1283) 20v 16. Cancionero de Baena (Paris: Nationale, Esp. 37) 196v 17. Lapidario (Escorial: Monasterio, h.I.15) 43v 18. Libros del saber de astronomía (Madrid: Universitaria, 156) 34r 19. Libros del saber de astronomía (Madrid: Universitaria. 156) 69v 20. Libro de la montería (Escorial: Monasterio, Y.II.19) 156v 21. Picatrix (Rome: Vaticana, Reg. lat. 1283) 30v 22. Celestina (New York: Hispanic Society) 49r 23. Libro de las leyes (London: British