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Diplomatic transcription

Meaning in history, with examples

nounAdvanced term

In history, diplomatic transcription means: A written rendering of a document that closely preserves specified features of the original, such as spelling and layout.

In Turkish: diplomatik çevriyazı, belgeye sadık aktarım

How it is used

State the transcription conventions, especially how abbreviations, deletions and line breaks are handled.

Example sentences

  1. The diplomatic transcription retains the clerk's inconsistent spellings.

    Original variation remains visible rather than being silently corrected.

  2. Readers used the diplomatic transcription to follow a cancelled clause.

    The rendering makes an alteration available for analysis.

Common collocations

  • prepare a diplomatic transcription
  • diplomatic transcription conventions
  • manuscriptA book or document written by hand, especially one produced before printing became common; also an author's text before it is published.
  • primary sourceEvidence created at the time being studied or by people who witnessed it, such as letters, diaries, official records, photographs or objects.

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