Correction Over Erasure Flag
Flag corrections written over erased text and band the practice under the stated rule: none at 0%, incidental below 25%, recurrent 25-60%, systematic above 60% of erasures receiving a written-over correction.
Description
Flag corrections written over erased text and band the practice under the stated rule: none at 0%, incidental below 25%, recurrent 25-60%, systematic above 60% of erasures receiving a written-over correction.
Correction Over Erasure Flag: Flag corrections written over erased text and band the practice under the stated rule: none at 0%, incidental below 25%, recurrent 25-60%, systematic above 60% of erasures receiving a written-over correction.
When to use Correction Over Erasure Flag
Use this palaeographic utility to apply a stated dating, script, abbreviation, codicological, metrological, layout, or condition rule consistently while preparing manuscripts for scholarly review.
- Erasures
- Erased passages identified in the witness.
- Corrections over erasure
- Corrections written directly over an erasure.
How Correction Over Erasure Flag works
Flag corrections written over erased text and band the practice under the stated rule: none at 0%, incidental below 25%, recurrent 25-60%, systematic above 60% of erasures receiving a written-over correction. The tool evaluates the supplied inputs together and returns the named outputs below; it does not infer omitted operating conditions or change the units shown.1
- Share %
- Corrections over erasures as a percentage of all erasures.
- Flag
- True when any correction sits over an erasure.
- Practice band
- Practice band from the stated thresholds.
Limitations and assumptions
- Script and manuscript evidence varies by language, region, institution, period, scribe, material, restoration, and cataloguing convention. A heuristic flag or score is not an authoritative date, hand attribution, reading, provenance, or conservation diagnosis.
- Use finite inputs in the displayed units and preserve more precision than the final presentation requires. Independently verify safety-critical, financial, compliance, or production decisions.
Alternative or Complementary approaches
Retain page images, scale, foliation, material, provenance, diplomatic transcription, uncertainty, and comparison exemplars; confirm conclusions with codicological context and specialist judgment.
References
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Conservation and restoration of manuscripts — Wikipedia contributors
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