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Enhancements
The search results provide folio and line number, text (or bracketed colons for erased text), and means of enhancement (UV, DIP) with revealed text.
In this case UV reveals an uncial 's' deleted from 153r16. Click the folio at this spot to link to an image with an explanatory note.
Faded
This result, here displayed with SGML tags, indicates that on 181v1 'ig' in wig is faded.
Click the word at 181v1 on the folio itself to link to an enhanced image and an explanatory note.
Erased, faded, and otherwise defective or illegible readings are often enhanced by ultraviolet fluorescence (UV) and digital image processing (DIP).
This search retrieves instances of faded letters, often enhanced with UV and DIP.
Restorations
Lost or illegible text is often 'restored' from external evidence, usually the Thorkelin transcripts (A and B).
The results provide folio and line number; ellipsis for lost text (or bracketed colons for uncertain or deleted letters); the restorer (often with caveats or comments in parentheses); and the restoration.
Here both Thorkelin A and B attest that 'ma' was lost in (ma)nig at 148v5.
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