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This transcription was made by the COMPAUL Project, funded between 2011-16 by a Starting Grant awarded to Dr H.A.G. Houghton under the European Union Seventh Framework Programme (FP7/2007-13 grant agreement 283302).
This transcription was made on a Vulgate base text, using a black and white PDF supplied by Basel UB. This transcription includes all corrections, page layout information, formatting, abbreviations, digraphs and rubrication. The transcriber was Christina Kreinecker in September 2012 and the transcription was proofread against the same source by Hugh Houghton in July 2013. Glosses in the margin have been transcribed as alternative readings, with the al(ii) prefix ignored.
Rubrication is too difficult to make out from the black and white images, although it often takes the form of a vertical red line through a captial black letter. The size of capitalized characters is hard to classify (so they are rather treated as small ones than as capitalized ones). There are two different capital "q" in use, one looking like "Q", one like a big "q". There is no difference in use, though. There are two chapter number systems, the first an old one, marked as "cn", the second according to the modern chapter numbers (marked as "cn1"), which are normally added in red ink in the margin and by a ^-shaped sign in the text. Punctuation (mostly by second hand anyway) is simplified, correction of punctuation is not transcribed. A number of the spaces (indicated by 'spa2' etc.) appear to relate to erased first-hand punctuation. In a handful of circumstances, word divisions have been adjusted to the Vulgate base text. There seem to be two hands in Romans: the second hand is responsible for a few lines on 10v and 11r, although this has not been noted in the transcription.
The proofread plain text file was converted to XML in October 2014. The original transcription guidelines can be found at
The XML specifications used are version 1.5 of the IGNTP Guidelines available at