17-01-2026, 07:12 PM
(17-01-2026, 04:31 PM)Koen G wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.What do corrections in regular manuscripts look like? Would we, as amateur researchers, always be able to point them out? Would we even recognize them if they stared us in the face? Would we go "ooh" in the same way when a regular manuscript doesn't have obvious corrections?
I suppose that they could be (1) strikeouts, overwriting, and insertions. Those should be obvious:
(2) Erasures. The following may be an instance:
Note that this manuscript is on paper, not vellum.
However, in those examples the corrections seem to have been done by a Proofreader distinct from the Scribe who committed the errors. I would guess that a Scribe who is merely copying from a draft would not notice his own errors. For that he woudl have to go back and check again what he wrote against the draft. That may take half as long as writing in the first place, for no extra pay; and still there is a high probability that he will make the same mistakes that he did the first time.
And I think that the Author could not afford an independent Proofreader.
All the best, --stolfi