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LIST OF SYMBOLS

© original manuscript ©* original hand ©c correcting hand ® printer’s manuscript ®* original hand ®c correcting hand ™ scribe original manuscript (©): • original hands, also correcting ™1 OC Oliver Cowdery ™2 unknown scribe x ™3 unknown scribe y ™4 JS Joseph Smith • correcting only JG John Gilbert printer’s manuscript ( ®): • original hands, also correcting ™1 OC Oliver Cowdery ™2 unknown scribe z ™3 HS Hyrum Smith • correcting only JG John Gilbert JS Joseph Smith underlining bolding ALL CAPS

ß ∫ &

John Gilbert’s marks for typesetting the  edition Joseph Smith’s editing for the  edition conjectured text, written sublinearly an elongated s a minim (a single i-like stroke) ampersand (various one-letter representations of the Latin et ‘and’)

bop eop

beginning of page end of page

boln eoln

beginning of line end of line

LIST OF SYMBOLS

¬

extra-long line in manuscript (continued on line below in transcript)

ƒ

 compositor’s take mark (when the composing stick was full)

« ∑ » „ √ ÷ ◊ ¿ ¶ ¥ ∏ π

^ |x| \x/ /x\

other take marks (when the compositor finished setting the type for a portion of the text); described in the notes to the transcript

various paragraph marks

insert mark in the text x has been inserted in line between letters or words x has been inserted somewhat above the line x has been inserted somewhat below the line

<%x%>

x has been deleted by crossing out x has been deleted by erasure or blotting x has been aborted (but not actually deleted)

{x|y} {x}

x has been overwritten by y x has been partially overwritten by x

x›y x‹y

x and y originally separated by a space, now closed up x and y originally written continuously, now separated by a space or some other indication

x(-) x(-•) x(-†)

the letter x is missing a stroke the letter x is missing its dot the letter x is missing its crossing

x(+) x(+•) x(+†)

the letter x has an extra stroke the letter x has an extra dot the letter x has an extra crossing

[ ] [x] [x|y]

the text is completely illegible x is partially legible the text may be x or y, with x preferred or intended

( ) (x)

a lacuna (missing portion) in the physical manuscript x is partially missing due to a lacuna