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and were studied and memorized for their own merit. Many Biblical passages came to be associated with a particular gloss, whose truth was taken to be scriptural. Indeed, in one case, it is generally reckoned that an early gloss explicating the doctrine of the Trinity made its way into the Scriptural
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is usually indicated by hyphenation. Fingerspelled words that have been lexicalized (that is, fingerspelling sequences that have entered the sign language as linguistic units and that often have slight modifications) are indicated with a hash. For example,
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collated by Erasmus (the first two editions excluded it for lack of manuscript evidence), but is absent from all modern critical reconstructions of the New Testament text, such as
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Meinolf Schumacher: "…der kann den texst und och die gloß. Zum Wortgebrauch von 'Text' und 'Glosse' in deutschen Dichtungen des Spätmittelalters." In '
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and its translation when it is important to understand the structure of the language being glossed, and not just the overall meaning of the passage.
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one, of the meaning of a word or wording in a text. It may be in the language of the text or in the reader's language if that is different.
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are typically transcribed word-for-word by means of a gloss written in the predominant oral language in all capitals; for example,
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A gloss is a notation regarding the main text in a document. Shown is a parchment page from the Royal Library of Copenhagen.
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used the expression of gloss for poems commenting on a given other piece of poetry, often in the Spanish
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Textus' im Mittelalter. Komponenten und Situationen des Wortgebrauchs im schriftsemantischen Feld
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countries, the term "judicial gloss" refers to what is considered an authoritative or "official"
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are glosses added to this Latin codex that are now considered the first phrases written in the
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to Latin Bibles give us a running translation of Biblical texts in that language; see
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and turning the "B" hand palm side in, unlike a regularly fingerspelled "B".
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is often glossed as superscript words, with its scope indicated by brackets.
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text itself, in the passage known as the "three heavenly witnesses" or the
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Brief marginal notation of the meaning of a word or wording in a text
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literature and music which follows and comments on a refrain (the "
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of a text with cross references to similar passages. Today
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A longer or more complex transcription may rely upon an
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