Terms
Gallery of Glosses Terminology and Abbreviations
Gloss
A gloss is an individual version of an explanation or interpretation found in one or more manuscripts. It provides brief marginal or interlinear annotations explaining the meaning of a word or wording in a text.
Meta-Gloss
A meta-gloss represents the abstract idea of a gloss, of which various individual glosses are instances or versions.
Glossary
A curated collection of glosses.
Mt
This stands for the Gospel of Matthew, a part of the Bible. It is used as an authoritative text for the context of some glosses.
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A canonical reference system common in theological studies, where the numbers before and after the colon respectively represent the chapter and verse of a book from the Bible, e.g., Matthew 5:16 refers to Chapter 5, Verse 16 of the Gospel of Matthew.