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HANDBOOK FOR TRANSLATORS OF SPANISH HISTORICAL DOCUMENTS
historical document marked out words or phrases and placed
corrections either on the line of writing or between the
lines. To make an accurate transcription of everything
that appears in the original, it is advisable to insert
such deletions in exactly the same order and at the same
point where they occur; but deletions written between the
lines should be placed on the line of writing. All deletions
are indicated by striking a hyphen over each letter.
In translations, all deletions should be translated and
transcribed whenever possible; that is, when enough symbols
are present to indicate the thought intended by the writer.
If translation would necessitate the use of brackets,
however, deleted material should be left in the original.
Likewise, unfinished words other than abbreviations should
be left in the original followed by three single-spaced
dots to indicate their incomplete form. When an entire
paragraph, or a page, is deleted, the word "Deleted,"
should be enclosed in brackets and placed at the beginning;
the deleted section should then be translated and transcribed
as usvial; that is, it is not then necessary to
strike a hyphen over each letter.
6. Pagination Two slanting bars (//), immediately
followed by a superscript number of the page just beginning,
should be inserted in the transcription at the point
corresponding to the place where each new page begins in
the original; no space should be allowed between the first
letter of the new page and the two bars. It is not necessary,
however, to place these bars at the head of the first
page of the transcription. Furthermore, the letter "v"
should follow the page number to indicate the verso of the
page in the original; e.g., //2, //2v^ //3^ Z/"^^, etc.
Spanish historical manuscripts usually are written on both
sides of the page, but only the* recto is numbered. Whenever
the original writer wished to refer to the verso of a
page he would merely state, for instance, pagina _3 vuelta,
meaning, page 3 verso. Consequently, the method stated
above can be used with admirable accuracy in the transcription
of translations. In certain types of Spanish dociiments,
one or more pages of related documents are interpolated
between the regularly numbered pages, thus breaking the
sequence; that is, one or more pages may be inserted between
page 11^^ and page //^. In such cases, such interpolations
should be indicated as la, lb, 2a, 2b, etc. If
a dociiment has one or more pages before the first numbered
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