Diplomatic files preserve the line and page breaks of the original. Lines are numbered, within the page for prose texts, or within the entire text for verse or dramatic texts. Word divisions are as in the original.
NB: Square brackets in black are in the original text.
| testu{n} | abbreviation expanded |
| te\s/tun | text added above the line or position unspecified |
| te|s|tun | text added within the line |
| te>s<tun | text added in the margin |
| x or ? | unknown single character |
| testun [T: tesun] | editorial correction (with original reading in brackets) |
| testun [T: test|tun] | editorial correction (original line break marked) |
| testun [cywir. ysgr. oddiwrth tesun] | scribal correction (original given in brackets) |
| testun [corr. from: tesun] | scribal correction (original given in brackets) |
| testun [cywir. ysgr.] | scribal correction (the corrected element is indicated in red) |
| text deleted | |
| illegible deletion (indicating approximate number of characters deleted) | |
| term [:- glos] | term glossed (possibly in the margin) in the original |
| tes[=] tun | supplied hyphen at line break (word break not marked in the original) |
| [sic] or [sic!] | reading is correct although unexpected |
| _____ | space left in original |
| <testun> | text supplied (missing in original) |
| [testun] | text supplied (original damaged) |
| testun | text unclear |