This key is a basic guide for reading the html versions of the transcriptions of the manuscript texts analysed in LAEME.
For a detailed description of the internal transcription conventions and a full explanation of how different types of non-tagged data and comments are flagged in LAEME see Introduction to LAEME, chapter 3

Location: 378 159	Ordnance Survey grid coordinates
Comez þe þunge	Text in Early Middle English
(us), (er), (m), etc	Conventional expansion of an abbreviation sign
.	punctus
,	virgula
	punctus interrogativus
	punctus elevatus
:	colon
¶	paragraph marker
†	obelus
{\}	End of line in the manuscript
{\\}	End of text in the manuscript (corpus sample may continue with more texts)
{-}	End of line in the middle of word (the hyphen is editorial)
{'}...{'} / {'...'}	Heading or title (tagged text) / Heading or title (non-tagged text)
<	deleted text (detailed description in §3.5.4.1 in Introduction to LAEME)
>	inserted text (detailed description in §3.5.4.2 in Introduction to LAEME)
[me]n	Text in Early Middle English; letters enclosed in brackets are partially erased or damaged but still legible
{[...]}	Text lost through damage to manuscript. Dots indicate (probable) number of letters
{[because no[}	Modern English equivalent text supplied where Middle English text missing through damage or error
{(Renatus su(m) .(}	Non-English text in the same hand as tagged text
{)hem clensen .)}	English text in a different hand from the tagged text
{)('ratio . '()}	Non-English text in a different hand from the tagged text
{"chess board"}	Gloss
{=Stroke through the loop of the back of D=}	Editorial comment