Something important to remember

One really important thing to remember here is that sometimes, medieval scribes split words up differently to how we do today. You might think that the scribe has used a hyphen when in modern language we would consider the two parts of the word which the hyphen separates to be two separate words. This project aims to represent in the transcription the words, including spelling and word-division, as faithfully as possible. This is why it is very important that you do not make judgements such as deciding a scribe has made a mistake, and that instead you transcribe exactly what is in the manuscript, as closely as you possibly can.

Here is an example of what I mean.  Look, the scribe has written 'delos' without a space, indicating that he considers ‘de’ and ‘los’ to be two parts of the same word. Nowadays, however, we would consider not expect to see these two words written as one as we do here. For the purposes of transcription I’m going to represent the word as 'delos' so it is as close as possible to how it appears in the manuscript.

This is especially important when it comes to choosing between the 'line break hyphen' tag and the 'line break = no' tag. If the scribe has written a hyphen you must use the hyphen tag, even if you think the scribe doesn't need a hyphen because nowadays the hyphen comes between two separate words. If the scribe uses a hyphen then so should you!