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25: 133:, is an entry or passage in a text that was not written by the original author. As there are often several generations of copies between an extant copy of an ancient text and the original, each handwritten by different scribes, there is a natural tendency for extraneous material to be inserted into such documents over time. 191:
made an error when copying a text and omitted some lines, he would have tended to include the omitted material in the margin. However, margin notes made by readers are present in almost all manuscripts. Therefore, a different scribe seeking to produce a copy of the manuscript perhaps many years later
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Conscientious scribes tended to copy everything which appeared in a manuscript, but in all cases scribes needed to exercise personal judgement. Explanatory notes would tend to find their way into the body of a text as a natural result of this subjective process.
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could find it very difficult to determine whether a margin note was an omission made by the previous scribe (which should be included in the text) or simply a note made by a reader (which should be ignored or kept in the margin).
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reveals passages present in specials synoptics. These variations are explained by the fact that the gospels have different authors. However, they can be read as an interpolation. In a majority of cases, in response to late
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Modern scholars have developed techniques for recognizing interpolation, which are often apparent to modern observers, but would have been less so for medieval copyists.
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However, most interpolations result from the errors and inaccuracies which tend to arise during hand-copying, especially over long periods of time. For example, if a
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heretics, three centuries after the originals were written. Charters and legal texts are also subject to
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Interpolations originally may be inserted as an authentic explanatory note (for example, [
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15 (1994): 23-31. Gaston Paris, in 1897, also noted the interpolation of a verse romance on
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developments, the editors would have interpolated "clarifications" into the original text.
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111 (190): 121-40 and Janina P. Traxler, "The Use and Abuse of the Grail Quest"
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texts outside the Jewish and Christian canons is often described as
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are an example of the latter. Similarly, the letters of
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